Gary Quam
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5/3/2020 9:28 PM
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Head of Navigation. 
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Alford Cooley
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5/3/2020 6:40 PM
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Gary near the Put-In - see how flooded Seneca Creek "Estuary" is with the Po at 8.5 ft.
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Alford Cooley
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5/2/2020 8:24 PM
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This was Wayne's trip, with Tim, Gary & Ginny, John Snitzer and me in attendance. A beautiful day drew out masses of paddlers to Riley's Lock, where the high (8.5 at Little Falls) meant that the creek was lapping at the roadway. With 370 cfs coming down from Dawsonville gauge this was perfect for attaining up the first rapid beyond the River Road Bridge and indeed for paddling all the way up to the foot of the last rapid just down from Berryville Landing.
Indeed, Wayne had intended to start the trip there, but its impassibility from below - and evidently the same drawback for the first rapid/ low rubble dam upstream - led him to change the put-in to Rileys. Also, he received a last-minute recce report from Barb, who'd just checked out that the giant pick-up-sticks of logs jammed under the River Road bridge had been partially pulled out into the woods on river right, meaning that attaining from Rileys was an attractive possibility.
Tim figures there were about 30 paddlers in kayaks, canoes, and SUPs either piddling about in the Rileys estuary or headed up to see how high they might attain. Had we wanted to, we could easily have jumped out of our boats at that final Berryville rapid and dragged our boats up 50 yards or so to calm water and the Landing.
We asked the skipper of a canoe coming downstream with two little children and a small dog - what was it like coming down from Rte 28/ Dawsonville - and he said fine - just one portage. So a pretty clean passage from there to the mouth. The kids' mother must have been the shuttle-bunny.
Barb and Gordy showed up as we were returning to Rileys and she said a group of her friends had dropped off their boats at Dawsonville and were making the six-mile hike back up the roads to be able to run the creek. Such are the work-arounds now for paddling in the age of the coronovirus.
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