Gale River

Kayaked today with Vincent Dude.

Low, but not too low at 3.15 ft.  We scraped at times when we chose the shallower channel but it was plenty fluid.  The recommended low of 3.10 seems like a reasonable low to stick to.  The painted gauge is on river left of the bridge on Crane Hill Road (as you are nearly at the put in).  It is fading and isn't useful at low flows like today.  Pics of that added.

Not pushy, mostly cruisy II with the occasional III quick section until the gorge.  3 class IV drops in a row, each scouted and ran successfully - followed by Lava to finish things off, which wasn't too bad at this level.  I tried to get fancy with my route and had to roll up after getting flipped.

To take out we parked where the rail trail crosses Streeter Pond Road next to the Ammo bridge crossing, and walked up the trail from the river.  To avoid poison ivy, take out just before the railtrail bridge on river right as the Gale is flowing into the Ammo.  Following up along the concrete abutment to the trail I managed to avoid stepping in any.  It was all over the place everywhere else.

Beautiful and fun - totally worth it to me at this level!  A wee bit more water would be nice, but at much higher flows those IV drops would get too spicy for me I think.