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| The kayaks are coming |
I got an email from Jonathan asking if I would be interested in paddling tandem on Saturday - of course I would! I was leading a RICKA trip on the Pawcatuck River. For Jonathan it would be a bit of a homecoming since he had done a camping trip here 20 years ago – camping at the Carolina Canoe Campsite.
It turned out to be a beautiful day with temperatures in the low 80’s. The river was low, but still fluid – 2 feet, 50 cfs on the Wood River Junction Gage. We had 18 boats on the 8-mile section of the Pawcatuck from Richmond to Bradford.
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| One of many blow-downs |
We ran the shuttle and put in at the Jay Cronin Access at around 10:30. For the first half of the trip the river was narrow, and we had to maneuver around 8 blow-downs in the first 3 miles – most we were able to paddle around, a couple we had to lift boats over. It took us longer that expected to run that section, so we stopped for lunch at the bushwhack site across from the Wood River in Alton rather than at Burlingame as was the original plan.
Below Alton, the river gets bigger with the increased flow from the Wood River. About half of us ran the Burdickville Dam (two swims) and the rest portaged. From there, it is an easy paddle down to Bradford. Fun day, and always good to paddle with Jonathan.
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| Running the Broken Dam at Burdickville |
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