Upper Millers - November 2, 2017
I played hooky yesterday and went paddling. With the storm
earlier this week a bunch of local rivers came up, and I knew that I couldn’t
paddle this weekend, so it was now
or never.
The canoes outnumbered the kayaks on this trip (6 canoes to
3 kayaks), and my old Encore was feeling a little long-in-the-tooth with all
the nice Millbrook boats (1 Blink, 1 Outrage, and 2 Shachos).
We paddled the Upper Millers from Royalston to Athol in
MA. It’s usually an easy class III. Yesterday the level was a little higher
(estimated at 1,650, but the gage is offline), so it seemed like a solid class
III to me.
I spent most of my time dodging rocks
and dumping my boat. Not sure if
it is me or the boat (probably both), but the guys in the Millbrooks were
hitting the biggest waves, and bailing out their boats with sponges.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.