Had a great day on the Middle Gauley with the Beyers, Adam, Kevin, and Julia
It was a personal first on this section of the river.
Had a swim when I tried to catch this small eddy that was in behind a huge boulder above a crazy hole.
Almost made it but ended up sliding off the rock backwards into the hole.
After seeing how shitty the Lower Gauley Putin in road has become ... I will not drive my vehicle down there.
In Lost Creek for the night ... Leisurely drive back home tomorrow
Not sure what the level was.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
2013 Paddling Day 11 - Cheat River Canyon, WV
I decide to do a quick road trip to the USA.
Paddled the Cheat River Canyon with Al, Tommy, and and I forget the other guy as he was a kayaker.
It was a great hot sunny day ... which I had brought my paddling shorts ... ended up sweating in the drysuit.
I swam at Recyclatron as I tried to punch the hole instead of taking the normal line.
I will have to re-think going into Phils Hole on the Ottawa now.
As normal the takeout road still sucks and it is now worse then last year.
Luckily the new wheels made it down and up ok.
Had a kayak slide off the roof ... need to remember cockpits face out when putting them on the roof.
Spent the night with the Beyers in Fayetteville, WV
The level was 2.0 feet
Paddled the Cheat River Canyon with Al, Tommy, and and I forget the other guy as he was a kayaker.
It was a great hot sunny day ... which I had brought my paddling shorts ... ended up sweating in the drysuit.
I swam at Recyclatron as I tried to punch the hole instead of taking the normal line.
I will have to re-think going into Phils Hole on the Ottawa now.
As normal the takeout road still sucks and it is now worse then last year.
Luckily the new wheels made it down and up ok.
Had a kayak slide off the roof ... need to remember cockpits face out when putting them on the roof.
Spent the night with the Beyers in Fayetteville, WV
The level was 2.0 feet
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
2013 Paddling Day 10 - Beaver Creek
Paddle with the Ottawa Crew again.
The water was definitely freezing cold as the ice started to break up a few days before.
Swam at the second drop of double drop.
Definitely interesting paddling with one foot thick ice shelfs and big chunks of icebergs floating in the river.
Online gauge was 27.60
http://www.wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/graph/graph_e.html?stn=02HK006&prm1=6&prm2=-1&mode=graph&smo=4&sday=14&syr=2013&emo=4&eday=15&eyr=2013&y1min=&y1max=&y2min=&y2max=
The water was definitely freezing cold as the ice started to break up a few days before.
Swam at the second drop of double drop.
Definitely interesting paddling with one foot thick ice shelfs and big chunks of icebergs floating in the river.
Online gauge was 27.60
http://www.wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/graph/graph_e.html?stn=02HK006&prm1=6&prm2=-1&mode=graph&smo=4&sday=14&syr=2013&emo=4&eday=15&eyr=2013&y1min=&y1max=&y2min=&y2max=
Sunday, April 7, 2013
2013 Paddling Day 9 - Skootama River
Today was another personal first running the Skootama River near Flinton, Ontario.
We had twenty open boats and a couple kayaks on the river.
Nobody in the group had ever been on the river so we had to boat and land scout as we went.
Pretty much everyone walked around the first big feature due to the massive ice chunk was hanging above what looked like the normal line to take.
The two people that decided to run it and got stuck in the big ass hole had to be roped out.
The 1.2km canyon run is amazing ... too bad I had to miss taking my time in order to chase a boat and run a big drop on a blind corner.
I will definitely be going back for that run next spring.
Was 17.4 on the online gauge
http://www.wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/graph/graph_e.html?stn=02HL004&prm1=6&prm2=-1&mode=graph&smo=4&sday=7&syr=2013&emo=4&eday=8&eyr=2013&y1min=&y1max=&y2min=&y2max=
We had twenty open boats and a couple kayaks on the river.
Nobody in the group had ever been on the river so we had to boat and land scout as we went.
Pretty much everyone walked around the first big feature due to the massive ice chunk was hanging above what looked like the normal line to take.
The two people that decided to run it and got stuck in the big ass hole had to be roped out.
The 1.2km canyon run is amazing ... too bad I had to miss taking my time in order to chase a boat and run a big drop on a blind corner.
I will definitely be going back for that run next spring.
Was 17.4 on the online gauge
http://www.wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/graph/graph_e.html?stn=02HL004&prm1=6&prm2=-1&mode=graph&smo=4&sday=7&syr=2013&emo=4&eday=8&eyr=2013&y1min=&y1max=&y2min=&y2max=
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