RW,
That boat of yours must be in RX, right?
It is the high outfitting season, or at least the start of it. All winter my area has been alternating 50 degree periods with snowy ones in the 20s. The middle latitudes are confusing. But I'm going to travel a little this summer, so I guess I'd better get going. First comes figuring out a way to attach the boat to the truck so someone will have a hard time walking away with it when I'm not around for the day.
These past months I've had a thing about exploring the middle Bluestone River, a tributary of the middle New River. The section I'm working on is only 10 miles long, but it's beautiful and not much traveled because access into the deep gorge is limited. I was there yesterday, and here's a sketch of what I saw. I have other posts about the Blue. I hope this one does not constitute swamping your thread.
The last photo is of a falls on Brush Creek, a tributary. I posted it by mistake.
The water is too low to run, and I'm not prepared for a winter float on this river anyway, so the fun for now is walking the shoreline. A mink on the bank came right up to within 10' of me, I watched an immature bald eagle glide by at treetop height, I jumped a GB heron out of the trees a couple of times, and I was impressed that with the exception of the new cabin and a line of horse hoof prints in the mud, there was not a sign that anyone had visited here in a long time. The terrain filters out people so much that none of this part of the gorge is posted.
This is the sort of thing I do, and I do it both from the boat and on foot. Every paddle is a series of hops to spots I can't say no to.