Kimpton Brook

Flow Info:

The Smith is the nearest gauge and has similar drainage features. The correlation range was taken from the Upper Smith. This is an estimate. If you run this section please comment with more flow beta

[Initial information supplied by local paddlers.]

Comments from Vincent Dude

It has three whitewater sections, each about a half mile long, separated by flatwater. Running all three could be done by paddling through the flatwater, also each a half mile, or by setting up multiple shuttles. All three sections are narrow III+/IV, the upper section has one portage/class V drop and the lower section has one potage/class V drop.

Kimpton Brook requires more rain than nearby Walker Brook and rises and drops faster

than Walker Brook.

First recorded decent 4/18/08 by Vincent Dude

Ran Kimpton Brook today at what I would call minimum required flow.

While the whitewater is plenty interesting, it is cut into three sections by two marshes. Throw in all the

of exploring a new river and you can imagine we were in and out of our boats often. With a touch more water and a triple shuttle set up, this would be a much more fluid run. That said, we still had fun.

The upper section is narrowest obviously and starts out by quickly ramping up from class II at the put in by my mailbox to a technical class IV boulder garden with slide finish right above a 30+ foot slide that was a real adventure. All the water is funneled by a rock wall once part of an old mill and the tongue pours onto this slide that features a couple dips and rails across and diagonal to the fall line. My wife said I really ought to be first since it is across the street from our house so I gave it a shot entering the way Nate and I presumed would be best. I got slowed by the first rail, came flying over its rooster tail and discovered a second rail hidden in the froth which flipped me so I spent the remaining 15 feet of the slide u

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