Kline Kill

This has rarely been run. Dennis Dodge reports running it ca. 1980 in 13-ft glass boats. It was run again in August, 2100. (See below.)

The putin is actually on Punsit Creek, just upstream of the confluence with Indian Creek which forms Kline Kill.

Stu Summer gave the following description of his run in this post in the Northeast Paddlers' Message Board:

August 29, 2011 KLINE KILL

Two days after (Hurricane) Irene swept through, Martin Summer and I headed to the Kline Kill (a Kinderhook tributary in north-central Columbia County) for a long awaited first run. It is evidence of the small watershed and its flashiness that the Kill was already well down and in fact could not be run much lower. We parked on County Route 9 next to the bridge over the Kill. We slid our canoes through the brush and dragged them a bit down from the bridge, past a strainer (which are common in this bottom land). We then floated around some other small strainers to the junction with Indian Creek just above the four barrelled culverts under the Taconic Parkway. These are giant and the high water mark from the flood showed another 3-4 feet of headroom even after the monster rains. Our level was already maybe 5 feet lower.

We caught an eddy at the conjunction, and it was difficult but possible to boat scout the four culverts and choose the river left one, which was easier to see down and was all clear. It was a smooth passage with no drop off at the down stream lip. Below the Taconic the river bends left and then right with numerous strainers, but only one river wide. All of this is class I-II. The scenery past the TSP is bucolic. After about a mile, the river turns south and then begins to parallel Rte. 9 southwest towards Ghent and Rte 66. Here the river picks up a little, with som

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