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Written by VPC
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Published: 05 November 2019
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Volume Album Event Rivers Ammonoosuc River (NH) April 2007
It was drizzling and damp the entire day, but once you suit up in your drytop or drysuit who gives a hoot. Temps were in the 50's, winds were calm, and the level was a perfect medium 4.1 feet (~850 cfs). The level here 5 days prior, as you can see onshore behind Rich, was nearly 6 feet, which triples the flow and requires advanced paddling skills to negotiate.
Happy to be in his kayak for the first time this season.
...slicing through a wave in his old-school Mad River ME.
A rare action shot, in mid-current and heading downstream. The Ammo is lovely. It's sort of a cross between an oversized Lower New Haven and an undersized Dead River.
A clean line through to the end of Boatbreaker Rapid, above Pierce Bridge. It's entrance is marked by a rocky island, where the water goes mostly right.
The rapids below the Powerhouse Dam (and lunch stop) are fairly continuous and exciting, for a mile if not more.
...clearly in control.
At 4 feet, the Ammo is for the most part a class II river with class III consequences. I still vividly recall my first Ammo run, circa 1986, in a tandem canoe, which ended in a shivering walk down the railroad tracks back to the waiting car, after capsizing one too many times.
There were a many jet ferry and surfing spots en route to the take-out, but none more foregiving than the one shown here.
Dirt roads follow the river for much of its distance, making it possible to spot cars and/or take-out at any number of locations.
Testing indeed
...on the Lower Mad!
Costa Rica / Sarapiqui R.
Costa Rica - Upper Upper Pacuare
U U Pacuare, Costa Rica
Sarapiqui R, Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Chillaxing at the Pacuare Eco Lodge
Thanks to Levente Hunyadi for developing an extensible lightbox plug-in: sigplus
