After weeks of wind, the temperature and wind gave us a break. I paddled upriver, then back downriver, past where the Red Bridge once stood. A cool morning, but okay for early season paddling. Ducks (mostly mallards), blackbirds, magpies, and gulls on the river or the shoreline, but no one in the green corridor at the bottom of the valley.
Continue reading →On the last day of winter, the weather was mild and there was little wind, so I brought my kayak down to the boat launch at Pioneer Park. The gate was closed so I wheeled my boat down to the shoreline. Ice bordered the river still, but I was able to lift the kayak over the ice to shallow water. The water is … Continue reading →
On an August day I drove east toward Chase and just after the Neskonlith IR, I turned south onto the Harper Lake Forest Service Road. The road becomes rougher, then at about 6 km from the highway, there is a small Rec Site, with seven primitive campsites and a small boat launch. The plan was to kayak the lake twice (6 km), once in each … Continue reading →
