Recent content by eckilson

We will be doing mostly lakes. There is one short class II section - Chase Rapids - that gets water from Churchill Dam. The ranger will shuttle the gear for $10 so you can run it empty. There are a few quickwater sections below that, but they will be low unless they get some more rain. We'll...

We'll be careful - thanks for your concern.

I'm off to the Allagash next week, but really didn't have the right boat. My Mohawk Whitewater 16 is a barge, and I wasn't sure that I wanted to paddle my composite Spirit II down Chase Rapids, or drag it through the shallows that we will probable hit next week. Fortunately, we were able to...

Don't worry @jdeerfoot, if you ever make it to the northeast and come on a trip with us we won't expect you to always do the dishes. Everyone gets their turn. No doubt about it, group meals can be a lot of work, but there are lots of ways for people to do their part. First there is the cost -...

I hadn't looked at this for a while - 44% at least OK with group meals, 56% would rather do their own. Off next week to the Allagash - 4 guys in tandems, two big coolers, three cooks and one guy who doesn't mind washing dishes - the perfect group. We'll do breakfast and dinner as a group...

Carp would be pushing upsteam. ;)

5' 10", 240 lbs - I'm big for it, but its a lot of fun to paddle. No oil canning. Looks like it is gone.

It is hard to know now because it is all underwater now, but based on the way the dams are spread out the rapids would have been spread out too. Probably not a pool and drop, more likely longer rapids interspersed with flatwater/quickwater. The river would have been really flashy. There is one...

I love my Yellowstone Solo. I paid $800 for it new in 2005. I'm in the same place or I might buy it,

Yup - the Riverton section of the Farmington is a great for poling, but I haven’t been there in quite a while. We would do downstream runs from the Goodwin Dam off Hogback Road to the parking lot at the Satan’s Kingdom State Recreation Area – about 10 miles. You can break it up into smaller...

Yup - the trouble is keeping my paddle downstream on the left means turning away from the camera. I thought I would try turning into the camera, but I should have switched my paddle to the right first. I was lucky to get this picture considering how quickly I dumped.

I wonder if you could do a downstream poling run at 1200 cfs. - you would probably need to kneel for the bigger rapids. Maybe one of the polers will chime in. Its ME so someone must have tried it. I have friends who poled up Spencer Stream as part of the NFCT.

As long as you don't go too far into NY, I'd definitely be interested. The flatwater sections of the Housatonic are nice - Sheffield, MA to Ashley Falls, MA, or Ashley Falls, MA to Falls Village, CT.

I have knee pads and can put thigh straps and bags in my Yellowstone Solo. Fun to play in, but it is definitely a submarine. https://www.flickr.com/photos/eckilson/albums/72157649221093884/ I wouldn't go so far as to put a pedestal - nice to be able to sit on the seat in the flatwater

I'll keep a RX boat for low level runs when I don't want to scratch up the Millbrook. That will be the RX Outrage, so I guess I will have to find a new home for my old Encore. Going to be hard to give it up, even though I haven't paddled it in a coupe of years...