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canoes - ours a pretty much brand-new dark green 17-foot We No
Nah Sundowner, his a red 16-foot Old Town Penobscot—right up
to the main dock of Manhattan’s 79th Street Boat Basin, and tied
up like we owned the place.When Kath and I stepped out unto the
dock we’d finished canoeing the entire Hudson River (having been
inspired by Peter Lourie’s River of Mountains: A Canoe Journey
down the Hudson) from the Indian River white-water rafting put-in
in the Adirondacks to Manhattan (except foabout a six-mile stretch
in the ‘Daks from the hamlet of Riparius to “The Glen”) over a period
of several years, pretty much on day trips. The whole trip was done in
open canoes, except for two sections in the Adirondacks that are un-
canoeable and had to be rafted: the notorious Hudson River Gorge,
and the nasty stretch from The Glen to North Creek. Let’s go back and
recreate this long, amazin’ journey/adventure, starting from the north:
I honestly don’t recall much about our 17-mile rafting trip through the
Gorge: not being “uppity”, but having rafted the Grand Canyon and
the Urabamba in Peru, we were pretty experienced rafters (note that
Lourie says there are two drops in this part of the Hudson of 80 feet