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• July 8, 2022

  CT River Day 11

  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.…
• July 6, 2022

  CT River Day 10

  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…
• July 4, 2022

  CT River Day 9

  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…
• July 2, 2022

  CT River Day 8

  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…
• June 30, 2022

  CT River Day 7

  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…
• June 29, 2022

  CT River Day 6

  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.…
• June 28, 2022

  CT River Day 5

  22 River miles from Colebrook, NH (at river mile 47) to the Maine Central Railroad Trestle Campsite (at river mile 69) Dot and I drove up to Colebrook NH, where we had taken out with Joanie a week before. We found a spot off the side of the road, right by the river where we…
• June 25, 2022

  In Answer to Your Questions #2

  This is my attempt to answer the questions I was asked about my route and what I anticipate as challenges. To be honest I am still figuring a lot of this out. I am going strictly north to south. I started at the Canadian border in New Hampshire and hope to end 410 miles later…
• June 24, 2022

  Equipment:Part II

  After deciding on the boat, the rest of the equipment seems easier, though still not as straightforward to me as packing for a hike. I didn’t want to take my down sleeping bag onto the river so I tried to decide between a fairly heavy fiberfill bag or a lightweight pile blanket. In the end…
• June 23, 2022

  Making Friends

  In one day I leave for a week long stint of my trip. I have finally settled on the boat. Since I have never really paddled it I decided I better make friends with it. My friend Carl came over and helped me load it onto the car. We went to nearby Kent Pond for…