Potomac

Ran this today at 3.93ft and had a great time! It looks like a really long ferry across the river to the Patowmack (GW) Canal section, but it passes rather quickly. Lots of choices to make while in the canal section as the islands and debris piles cut the river into individual channels. When nearing the end of the canal, note the large yellow arrow on the tree on the left side of the right-hand channel. It'll be pointing left into what is (at this moment) a strainer. Simply run to the right of the woodpile/strainer and then attain around the left hand side of the island to get back to the main channel and run a couple of fun little ledges before starting to ferry left to the shore line to take out. The best take-out is visible as two trees are marked with yellow paint squares which you can see from just about anywhere on the river. The paddle back up the canal starts out really shallow at the 4' mark, and then deepens for a bit, but once you are committed to the canal, there's no real way out until the take-out at Violette's lock. At 3.93 feet, we had to clamber up the canal bank 100 yards from the lock because it simply got too shallow to go any further.