Klamath

I paddled this from Trinity River just above the gorge (41.1052, -123.6902) to the mouth of the Klamath in 2 full days. Before going I spoke to a few boaters familiar with the region and was kinda concerned that the flow would be so low I may be dragging my boat or choose to abort at Johnsons / end of Hwy 169. There were long stretches of paddling on basically flat water and a few rapids but nothing difficult. If you are happy paddling for hours you'll have a great time. I saw lots of mammals (mostly river otters?) and few humans. Beautiful area, easy camping. I gave myself plenty of time for a battle against wind and tides at the mouth, but it wasn't bad. I wanted to paddle all the way into the ocean but after taking a peek over the sand bar at the beach breaking waves decided I didn't want to be in that water. In hindsight only thing I would have liked to have done differently is take more time playing on the surfable rapids (one at 41.2463, -123.7730 was particularly nice at that flow) in the first third of my trip.

For shuttle, a friend dropped me off and I took Redwood Coast Transit route 20 back to Arcata.