Little Hunting Creek (west)
It has been over a year since the Geodesic canoe has seen water. The weather was overcast and (slightly) milder than of recent. I started with a put-in at Snakefish Cove, trying to pioneer a location that is accessible beyond the dusk to dawn of nearby Riverside Park parking lot. Carrying the ~12lb canoe to the water was easy and exactly why I built the canoe. Getting into the canoe was an exercise in tipsy. Making headway down the stream lasted about 50 feet before a blockage. Getting over the first log was difficult, then the second, and I saw a third. Turning around, I slipped off the log and up to my waist in the water. Oops. This was a bad location. Resetting to Riverside Park brought an easy put-in and about a half-mile extra of paddling. Worth it. I tried the western connection this trip, wanting to see how far it went into the woods. The water was about 2-3 feet low, so the vegetation eventually closed in and chok...