Location: White River – 116th Street to 82nd Street
Distance +/-X
Date: 1/30/08
Gauge: 3.1 (Nora)
Paddle Time: 1.5 hours
Paddlers: James Nichols (Current Designs Breeze), Doug Mark (Liquidlogic Zirconia)
Weather: 20 degrees & calm
In spite of the low temperature this was one of the nicest trips we have done. The day before it had been cloudy, rainy and the wind was 60+ MPH. Fortunately for us it was clear and calm and the river was at a nice level.
Unfortunately we didn't get on the water until close to 6PM, so the sun was already starting down. We knew we would be finishing in the dark, but figured there would be enough ambient light from being in the city that we would be able to see fairly well.
As we started out from the 116th Street boat ramp we were running through a lot of small floating ice chunks. Most of them were not very big but every once in a while one of us would hit one that would deflect our boat a little.
Overall this trip was pretty uneventful. We saw a really nice sunset, and there was enough light for most of the trip we didn't have to worry about hitting anything. There were a few low-hanging branches that we had to dodge. I hit a rock ust past the 96th Street bridge, but fortunately it was fairly small. Due to the temperature we were b
eing very careful not to go in the water...that would have been bad.
Just before the takeout was really dark and we were paddling along talking when a group of geese took off from the water very near us. They were really loud and really startled us; we started talking about how it would be pretty bad to make it down the river and then tip over from being scared by geese.
Distance +/-X
Date: 1/30/08
Gauge: 3.1 (Nora)
Paddle Time: 1.5 hours
Paddlers: James Nichols (Current Designs Breeze), Doug Mark (Liquidlogic Zirconia)
Weather: 20 degrees & calm
In spite of the low temperature this was one of the nicest trips we have done. The day before it had been cloudy, rainy and the wind was 60+ MPH. Fortunately for us it was clear and calm and the river was at a nice level.
Unfortunately we didn't get on the water until close to 6PM, so the sun was already starting down. We knew we would be finishing in the dark, but figured there would be enough ambient light from being in the city that we would be able to see fairly well.
As we started out from the 116th Street boat ramp we were running through a lot of small floating ice chunks. Most of them were not very big but every once in a while one of us would hit one that would deflect our boat a little.
Overall this trip was pretty uneventful. We saw a really nice sunset, and there was enough light for most of the trip we didn't have to worry about hitting anything. There were a few low-hanging branches that we had to dodge. I hit a rock ust past the 96th Street bridge, but fortunately it was fairly small. Due to the temperature we were b
eing very careful not to go in the water...that would have been bad.Just before the takeout was really dark and we were paddling along talking when a group of geese took off from the water very near us. They were really loud and really startled us; we started talking about how it would be pretty bad to make it down the river and then tip over from being scared by geese.
I don't know if you can see it in this photo, but there is a whole lot of ice around the drip ring on my paddle in the last photo. They don't work so great when they have 1/4" or so of ice covering them.
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