River Island Park - January 15, 2022

Bernon Mills

I’ve been hiking more than paddling lately, so I wanted to get my canoe out for at least a short trip. At 15-degrees I knew that any flatwater would be frozen solid, so it was back to River Island Park. I was nice and warm with two layers of insulation under my drysuit and my neoprene helmet liner, but a thin layer of ice froze inside the boat making it real heavy to carry back up the flood control levy to the cart. It's just under a mile back to the car, and the wind was brutal in a couple of spots. Other than that it was fine. No wind on the river and at 2.3', 588 cfs, the river was at a nice, easy level.

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