kayaking the Winooski
Yesterday, oddmonster and I took a trip down a section of the lower Winooski. The original plan was to put in just after the dam at the Winooski bridge — which we cross twice daily — and to run the nearly 10 miles down to where the Winooski empties into Lake Champlain. But, after getting a late start, we decided to put in a bit further on, at a nice canoe access provided in the Ethen Allen Homestead.
It was a beautiful day for paddling, and a nice remaining day of summer. That section of the river is both wide and deep — we had no space issue even with motorboats around, and we never once got remotely near grounded. Though the sign at the put-in said we were 5.5mi from Lake Champlain it was more like 7…
We took out at Charlie Auer’s Family’s Boathouse, which is a fixture of the Burlington outdoor landscape. Having been there for 75 years, they are nothing but committed to making your trip awesome … they also run the bike ferry, and have prime placement on the bike trail, so there’s always folks around.
This was also the opportunity I’ve been itching for to play with my brand new Rino 120. We crashed pretty hard yesterday evening after getting back, but tonight I found the time to download the track log data onto my linux box. But the real win was finding the excellent gpsvisualizer.com.
One small issue with gpsvisualizer.com is that it doesn’t let you assign the color of the waypoint markers … but a bit of svg editing later, and problem solved.
Thus, our Winooski river trip:
