Schroon River

On a beautiful summer day following an extremely damp Independence Day, we car-topped the Hornbeck boats and headed for the Schroon River. With water at a high level for July we wanted to take advantage of the current (pun intended) navigability of this river. We had paddled upriver in our kayaks a few years prior and had bottomed out while rounding the third bend. Today, we would go with the flow.

After launching, we realized that this would be more of a "steer" than a "paddle." We passed some folks floating on tubes exclaiming: "I wonder what all the poor people are doing today..."

We admired the surrounding forest as we floated by and saw many nice campsites along the way. When we came to the lake, we finally had to use our paddles to propel ourselves rather than simply using them as rudders. We paddled to the Schroon Lake town beach and tied the boats on. I'm quite sure that we would have headed for a second run if sunset (and mosquito time) wasn't imminent.