Pocantico

IMPORTANT UPDATE: ran this again on 4/17/07 after a lot of rain, a lot of flooding and closed roads the day before. The Pocantico was real high Tues when I ran it and Monday's flood stage water got rid of most strainers but added new ones: after the ledges you'll soon get to where you'll see two pedestrainian bridges, one after another, they both had strainers under the bridges toward river right. Eddie right (left if need be) or just slow down and make sure you can get by safly (river was moving fast that Tues and I wasnt taking any chances but they were passable). Further down the river splits in two (left is best) and the river makes a sharp right and the gradient picks up for a bit and you'll pass a tree trunk on your right (you'll see it right after the right turn) eddie behind this trunk, there's a riverwide. One more POSSIBLE SERIOUS HAZZARD: when you get to the tunnel, other times it was flat but on this day it had a fast moving wave train and it used to be flat. The riverwide used to creat a dam-like effect but no longer the case. YOU MUST EDDY OUT IMMEDIATLY AFTER PASSING THE TUNNEL. The water was crashing into and under this large tree. If you wanna play it safe you can avoid this potential danger by eddying out after the large pedestrian bridge with three arches (which you should do so anyway due to a riverwide pipe, I usually duck it myself) and portage the tunnel and put back in after the tunnel and strainer.