Casselman

I did the full run to Harnedsville because I was curious about the McClintock Run rapid (which is actually Cucumber Run -- the previous AW writeup had mislabeled it) and because taking out at Fort Hill always seemed a little too short (it's only 6 miles). The gage in Markleton was at 2.9, and I was in an old-school Royalex canoe -- 16 feet and no flotation, so I had to look for clean lines (sometimes scouting ahead from the riverbank).

The hardest rapid in this context is Tossed Salad. There is a clean line to be found on river left, but there are lots of little rocks that hide under the surface and threaten to disrupt a line, which could be somewhat calamitous given the overall length of the rapid and the boulders that await throughout.

Running the left line at the Cucumber Run rapid, meanwhile, could potentially swamp an open boat at this level, so I opted for a sneak route of sorts along the right riverbank, avoiding a little pourover at the bottom. It was not an overly technical line.

The last mile or two to Harnedsville was basically flat, but thankfully there is a steady current, which helped considerably while a strong afternoon wind blew upstream. The takeout by the GAP trail bridge was doable, albeit not wonderful.

P.S. I've used the Markleton put-in pretty regularly since 2020, and I haven't yet encountered the Fish and Game police that feature prominently in the descriptions here on American Whitewater.