Trip Journals

can tell, this is just a parking lot under the elevated highway and a dock on the Hudson.  As we assembled our boats, people from the local rowing club were taking sculls out from the boathouse that adjoined the lot. I talked with the Press, who were covering the start of the Great Hudson River Paddle, and with a retired parks service director.  We got into the water just before 9am.  The weather was nice, with a clear but hazy sky, but with a strong wind from the south, the direction we would be paddling.  We passed by a rather cluttered industrial section of Albany and some rather large ships, including a tanker and the cargo ship Maineboro.  I was surprised...(Read more here)

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Read about the Great Champlain-Hudson paddle here.

October 16.
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