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| Taking a break for lunch |
On Saturday I paddled the Pemi in Bristol. On Sunday I led a RICKA flatwater trip
with Sharon on the Assabet River from Acton (Acton Canoe Launch, 63 Powder Mill
Road) to Concord (Old Calf Pasture, 250 Lowell Road). It was a good weekend.
The Assabet was a little on the low side for this trip - 2 feet on the Maynard Gage. We we made it through fine, but I wouldn’t want to run it much lower. It did make the run through the
Damondale Dam easier. Below Damondale, the Assabet slows and we encountered a
number of blow-downs. We stopped
for lunch in West Concord, and then continued downstream.
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| Running the Damondale Dam |
There was a lot of erosion along
the banks of the Leaning Hemlocks section, but it looked like someone had
propped up the stone with the memorial to George Bartlett. Egg Rock was high and dry where the Assabet converges with
the Sudbury to form the Concord. From
there, it is just a short paddle up into the Old North Bridge and the Minute Man National Historic Park. Good day.
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| At the Old North Bridge |
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