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 choked off the river.  With more water, I could certainly have kept powering up the river.  It was a 1.88nmi paddle, each way.


Here are some pictures of the locals: 


Until next time...

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