Fall Whitewater Weekend on Tohickon Creek in Eastern PA

[Gamma1214]

If you're in or near Eastern PA this weekend and care to play in class 3-4 rapids, I ran across this article today. Weather looks to be cooperative.

DCNR set to flood eastern Pa. stream for whitewater boaters

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will continue a semi-annual tradition of creating a weekend of whitewater paddling conditions.

www.pennlive.com

 

[recped]

Looks like a fun run, here is a video from the March 2019 release

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

The Tohickon Creek fall release has been going on for at least 40 years. It used to be our club's last scheduled class 3 dam realease run of the season. My recollection is of very cold temperatures and several nice ledge drops. I met Charlie Waldbridge paddling by himself there in the mid-80's in a big C1, and poling expert Harry Rock in a Kevlar Mad River Explorer going over those ledges standing up.

I also remember in 1983 when NBC news anchor Jessica Savitch a week earlier had died in a car that flipped into the Delaware canal a few miles downstream from the confluence with the Tohickon. Several of us drove down to see the spot of her drowning.

Here's another video of canoes running the creek:

 

[lowangle al]

I hadn't heard of that run. I wonder why they only have a scheduled release once every two years. It must be nice to do a run that's not overrun with commercial rafters.

 

[recped]

The release is twice a year in non-covid times. This thread is titled "bi-annual" but the event is actually "semi-annual".

Releases are historically scheduled on a semi-annual basis, usually on the third weekend in March and the first weekend in November, to create the whitewater experiences.

 

[Gamma1214]

Crap. Sorry about that... Yes, it is twice per year (spring and fall). I suspect that Glenn can edit the title if he wishes but I can't.

SEMI-annual. (oops)

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

"Biannual" is ambiguous but not wrong according to some authorities. It can mean either "semiannual" (twice a year} or "biennial" (once every other year). I skipped the whole issue in my edit of the title.