New River Trip report 9/4-5/2022 Think of this as sort of a sub-report for the New River Rendezvous, organized by Ken Dubel and the Coastal Canoeists, with Monocacy Canoe Club, Carolina Canoe Club, and others as invitees. Traditionally, this is …
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On Memorial Day we did a trip down the New river in Virginia from the Bridle Creek Bridge(near the Mouth of Wilson) to the Hwy 21/221 bridge. This was an 8'ish mile paddle that was mostly class 2 with a couple of 2+ish rapids thrown in. We had a group of 5 – Keith Raker, Theresa Raker, Joandra Proia, Lim Lenburg and Judy Milakovich. It was a perfect day of paddling with beautiful weather, sufficient water flow with a nice picnic thrown in for good measure.
The trip was posted with a minimum preferred water level of 1' or above. The gauges held all week before the trip at around 2.5', so I figured we would have at least 2' by the weekend. We met at the visitor's center on Saturday morning and the folks there were reporting a level of -1.35'! To say the least. we were surprised, but a quick smartphone check indicated that the gorge was steady at 0.87' – a good, fun level with only minimum intimidation potential.
Day 1 of 3
New River Gorge Cunard to Fayette Station
Gauge – Fayette Station 0.1 ft.
7/16/11.
Paul Scrutton
Jon Godwin
We took our big boats to the NRG to simulate a race-paddle for the upcoming Captain Thurmond race. The river at 0.1 ft had plenty of flat water between the rapids.
New River Gorge and Music.
Participants :-
Paul scrutton
Jon Godwin
Morgan Randell
Luke Osborne
Having failed gauges 101 class, and having had to cancell the Tuckaseegee West Fork trip, I decided to plan a New River Gorge Trip. We had four paddlers sign up, the same people that were interested in the prior trip.
