Kayaking the Quinnie

With only one no-show the turnout was very good for this early season kayak trip.

We started off with two people dumping within 100 yards of the launch point. Another kayaker stepped out of his kayak to assist and ended up in 5 feet of water. After getting them all righted and pumped out we continued on. The river was up about 5 feet and moving fairly fast. The sun came out and all was well on the river. The only need for paddling was to steer, the river did the rest.

Come join me for this 5th annual spring kayaking event. The exact sectionof the river we will run will be determined on Wed. April 7th and is dependent on water level at the time. The trip will be about 4 hours long, you can expect that the water will be running fast, but it will not be whitewater, other than some short mild class one rapids. One section is meandering river flowing into West Thompson Lake which will be the section we run if the water level is low, the other possible section is all river and starts in Downtown Putnam and ends in Pomfret Landing.