The Rangeley Lakes area is definitely special. With a long history of outdoor recreation and a wide variety of ways to enjoy the land, paddling is just one of the great things to do in the area.
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Trish and I first paddled the Belgrade Stream about six years ago and did the complete journey from Belgrade Lakes Village to Messalonskee Lake. That fun journey takes you down Long Pond, includes a portage over Wings Mills Dam and spills you into Messalonskee at Route 27 near Hammond Lumber.
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In the summer I work for a local company called Native Notions doing landscape construction. It’s tough work, but one of the perks is that we’re all paddlers and at the end of each season we take a paddling trip. This year we spent four days exploring Allagash Lake, which isn’t all that big. Because we wouldn’t be paddling miles and miles each day, we got plenty of time to unwind and relax in what is probably the quietest place I’ve ever been in my life.
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50 mile scout trip - complete!
On Tuesday May 14th, Peter Sawtell and myself parked our truck at Northwood Meadows State Park in Northwood, New Hampshire, unloaded gear and headed out with the intent of following the Lamprey River all the way to saltwater.
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This spring is shaping up to be a busy season on the water and I'm really excited to be working with Peter Sawtell of Seven Rivers Padding. Today we partnered up and led a canoeing skills & leadership workshop for students in the Tufts University adventure program.
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The Allagash Wilderness Waterway is a 92-mile stretch of lakes, ponds and rivers flowing North through the Maine woods. It was established back in 1970 as one of the countries first Wild & Scenic Rivers and remains as Maine's only federally designated Wild & Scenic river today.
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On a recent canoe camping trip to a class I & II section of the St. Croix river in New Brunswick we brought along a Red Paddleboards 9'2" Surfstar for some added fun. This was my first time traveling on water with an additional board, although it's the main reason I got this board in the first place.
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I've been working hard in the paddle sports industry for 15 years. In that time I've never considered it a career, although it has accounted for a large percentage of my income each year. I've met many wonderful people through this sport including many of my best friends.
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After a five-day cross-country drive listening to a Short History of Nearly Everything, sleeping in the backseat of my Subaru at truck stops with everything I own and toting 5 standup paddleboards and a bike on a trailer behind me I arrived in Maine only to find out I still had another hour and a half to go.
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Four days before Eppie's Great Race, I got an email from Tom saying that he needed a last minute bow paddler for the last leg of the race, a 6.35 mile downriver paddle in a tandem open canoe. As luck would have it for me, his paddling partner had a change of plans and couldn't make it back to Sacramento in time for the race, so I was in.
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East Bay sup / CCK sup / BPC / TBD sup did awesome at the Russian River Race this weekend in Healdsburg. Organizers put on the Drought Edition this year due to low water on the river. The 15-mile course was cancelled, but the 5-mile was still on with almost 200 paddlers. Leading up to May 3rd, water levels slowly rose and presented a very runnable river leaving just a few areas of shallow water to portage or scrape over.
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