Spring Break

I got off for spring break so I made the drive back to DC. It was quite a shock for me to get back into such cold water. First I went to Portage Hole on the Potomac with Peter and we worked on some new tricks and such in our playboats. I also did Great Falls with Geoff. He was paddling his new Dagger Green boat and he was making it look really good. As soon as the rain started to fall I knew it would be time to go creeking over in WV. Geoff came to my house to pick me up and there was a minor emergency because I could only stay a day or two and Geoff wanted to stay for a while. I gave Scott a call and he and some buddies were going to try to get on Seneca Creek, WV which is on the classic creeks over there. So I chose that option and let Geoff go to another part of WV. Seneca runs very infrequently because it starts way up high at Seneca Rocks so it has a tiny drainage. Luckily, we had enough rain (sleet) to bring it up to a medium-lowish level which was very manigable for a crew of people who had never done it before. By the way, it is 13 miles long so it is quite and undertaking. I had never paddled with Scott, Billy or Curt and I thought that we worked really well together out there. think it took us about 6 hours of solid paddling to get to the take-out. There seemed to be a lot less sieve's/undercuts than some other WV creeks I had done before. However, wood was a big problem but we were able to sneak and avoid most of it. Scott's pitoned his boat and decided to give it away to another potomac local paddler who is without a creeker. Very classy of him. It was defently a fun week and I can't wait for low-water potomac when I get back. haha

Nathan