It has been quite a cool and rainy season here in Illinois this summer. It’s been fairly disappointing to have cancelled 2 or 3 planned trips on the water due to thunderstorms. It seemed even those trips where weather was ideal, once we got on the water, the skies opened up and it began to [...]
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Ottawa, IL (Day 2): Paddling the Fox and Illinois Rivers
This was a Meetup.Com organized event of a paddle Chad had organized, with a little help from me, a couple of weeks ago. The discovery of this route was motivated by the lack of desire to pay put-in or take-out fees to the greedy land and business owners along the Fox and Illinois Rivers…mostly the [...]
Stop Blagojevich From Closing Our State Parks!
After a very nice day hiking some miles in Starved Rock State Park, it was really saddening to receive this news in my email.
The following Illinois State Parks will close effective Nov. 1:
Castle Rock State Park, Oregon
Lowden State Park, Oregon
Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, Sheffield
Illini State Park, Marseilles
Channahon Parkway State Park, Channahon
Gebhard Woods State Park, [...]
Wyalusing State Park: A Co-Meetup Event
This was a fine attempt at creating a co-meetup group outing to include the FYB: Chicago Area Kayaking and the Northwest Burbs Camping meetup groups. There seem to be plenty of members in common, I’m not one of them. The trip was great. It provided awesome scenery, great paddling and a few extra surprises. Sadly, [...]
Kankakee River Paddle
The weather was pretty daunting, but we did this paddle anyway. The Kankakee River was high, fast and parts had my adrenaline running. There is a narrow stretch where the ripples seemed to approach Class II. The limestone dells were a site to see and the islands were large and would have been fun to [...]
