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=

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=

Camera is busted

Sad day for me ... turns out my camera is out of commission for at least a month. It is now in for repair as the memory card will no longer stay in it.

Looks like I will have time to get some stuff done around the house

Heading home after eight days of paddling in the South East

I made the long ass 1300km or 825 mile drive home all in one shot. 

Made it in my best time of 15 hours and 14 minutes.