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I was back with the kayakers yesterday to paddle a short, fun river in north central CT – the Scantic. The Scantic arises near Springfield, MA and flows southwest into CT to join the Connecticut River. We would be running the 5-mile section from Somers to Hazardville that is the site of the...

Not a swimming pool. The pool behind the Birch Hill Dam on the Millers River in MA. I don’t usually paddle during the week, but I knew that I couldn’t paddle this past weekend due to family obligations. When I saw a trip posted for Thursday on a flatwater section of the Millers River, I...

I did a couple of trips on Saturday up in NH with a local club. Saturday morning on the Sugar River - 21 boats, 20 kayaks and one canoe (me). Saturday afternoon on Croyden Brook - 9 boats, 8 kayaks and one canoe (me). The sad thing is it is not unusual for me to be the only open boat in a group...

Haven't posted here in years, but its great to see things so active.

Little late, and nothing too ambitious, but here is my trip report from our spring trip on Umbagog Lake - 3 nights on 3 different campsites. Always seem have wind there, but a nice way to kill a few days. http://eckilson.blogspot.com/2021/06/umbagog-lake-camping-june-7-10-2021.html Glad things...

Thinking about doing the Bow trip in May. In the past we have used an outfitter to take us to Holeb Pond, but this time we are planning to avoid the shuttle and paddle up Attean to the portage trail. So how bad is that portage? Can you use a cart? I remember the shorter portage around Holeb...

I missed my spring camping trip this year due to COVID-19, so I was bound and determined to do something in this fall. Last weekend I got out for a three-day (two-night) trip on the border of NH and ME. We paddled down the Magalloway River from Wilson’s Mills to Lake Umbagog, across the upper...

With work and family, it’s tough for me to get away to do long trips. Instead, I have been doing more long-weekends. One of the perfect rivers for these trips is the upper Connecticut – it’s not too far away (at least for me in RI), the river is pretty (but not exactly wilderness), and there are...

We were planning a trip on the upper Connecticut River (Canaan to Maidstone Bridge) next week. Just looked at the North Stratford gage, and it is almost 14,000 cfs - yikes. It was 500 cfs when we were there in the Fall. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nh/nwis/uv?site_no=01129500 How high is too...

Here is another Connecticut River story, but no misadventures on this one. Tommy, Mena, Bill and I also spent Columbus Day Weekend on the Connecticut River. We ran the section from Bloomfield, VT (North Stratford, NH) to Lunenburg, VT (South Lancaster, NH). We drove up Friday afternoon and...

I have some time off next week, and I’m looking for something that would be three days and two nights. I'd like to stay within 3 –- 4 hours of Boson so we don't spend most of the time driving. Any ideas? I wouldn’t mind doing the Saco (never done it), but I don’t know if...