Sunday, May 25, 2008

May 24-25 Upper Chatanika trip

Altogether an excellent run. We encountered fairly low water at the 60 mile put in site and a fairly constant series of class II rapids most of the 25 miles we paddled. We had a couple of people rolled by sweepers but that isn't unusual... definately drives home the need to waterproof. We didn't catch any fish but it is still early and we didn't pause very often for that purpose. A couple of logjams have been removed (thanks Billy and the chainsaw), but there are still many low trees and even one hazard to carry around. The weather was a bit drizzly the first day but improved greatly the second. We took four canoes and 8 people with one large dog (the dog won't be joining on difficult water again due to causing one tipover). All in all a great success. Hope to see you on our next trip.
Tony

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