14.4 miles from Woodsville to Vaughn Meadow Campsite Today really became a day of going with the flow. We woke in the beautiful home of my friend Nancy Tucker and her husband Jay. They had put me up on my bike trip last fall and it was lovely to get to visit with them again.…

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11.1 miles from Barnet-Monroe Bridge Access to Woodsville Access Today was a day for variety. We encountered a little bit of a lot of conditions. We had wind (headwind of course), interspersed with glassy calm. There were wide open lake-like sections of flatwater mixed with some quick-water and squirrelly currents. On some sections the river…

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12.5 river miles and one tough portage to the Barnet -Monroe Bridge Access (river mile 131.5) Neither Dot nor I were too quick to get started in the morning. Dot had contracted Lyme disease before leaving home and was on a round of Doxycycline which made her more prone to sunburn. Despite slathering herself with…

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about 15 miles and two tough portages to just before the Waterford Bridge Boat Launch (river mile 119) After a lovely breakfast with Carl, Dot and I set off down river. We made plans to meet Carl midway down the Moore Reservoir. It was another lovely windless morning and I hoped it would stay that…

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19 river miles to St John’s Boat Ramp (River Mile 106) I thought the theme of today was going to be muck. As Dot and I were putting our boats into the water below the breached dam we were sinking almost up to our knees in some amazing quicksand like muck. I thought about how…

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18 River miles and one bear of a portage. We went from Maine Trestle Campsite to past the breached Wyoming Dam (River Mile 87) If anyone wants to follow these sites on a map you can go to https://www.connecticutriverpaddlerstrail.org/crpt7/node/4208 You can follow my trip on their interactive map. Day six started in a lovely way.…

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