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North Branch Winooski after work
Tuesday April 12th, 2016Organizer: Ryan
Predominantly: advanced WW
Water Level: medium
Author: Ryan
Painted Gauge (ft): 4.2
River Gauge (loc): Putnamville
Kayakers (K1): Mainer, Anders, Kevin, Noah, Adsit, Schott, Beckwith, Vickers, McCall
NBW on a Tuesday night after work... Perfect way to cap a day long staff meeting at the office!!!!
Rains were plenty and the NBW had popped to a good fluid level. Emails were flying back and forth for the afternoon. We had two solid groups on the river, mine with two never- evers for the run. Always fun to show a newbie down this river because of the progressiion with how it builds to the bigger drops.
Big Bouncy and the Final drop were a little low for them to be fluid, but they both went well enough. Some of had cleaner lines than others at each of those signature drops - but they were all fun for sure! The final drop is quickly becoming a high water only drop with the tree that is choking off the river left option which is a bummer because that may be one of the better lines on the river.
All in all a great evening on the river. Some of the guys had so much fun that they ripped up to the put in for a second lap.