We had a great paddle today. Cindy went with us to another of the Paddle Pursuits. We put into Cheney pond, down a rutted gravel road off the Blue Ridge Road, and paddled the 1/2 mile or so to the end. The pond is so small I wasn't going to bother paddling it, until friends told us that you could get to the Boreas River from there. The river is known here as the Lester Flow, since there used to be a dam downstream that flooded a larger area.
The entrance to the outlet from Cheney Pond is so shallow we had to get out and pull our boats, carefully avoiding soft spots where others have gone in to their thighs. We paddled the outlet for a bit, then had to get out again to carry around rocks. There is a path through the bushes on the left that made this possible. Definitely a good thing we had our single kayaks. The river itself was very nice.
But we did encounter several beaver dams. Going downstream we only had to get out and carry around one dam, with some nice rides through holes in others. But coming back upstream there was another we had to carry around since the current was so strong. At the spot where the dam used to be we got out on the east side and climbed up the rocks to get this view of the high peaks. It was a great place for lunch.
The total round trip paddle was about 6 miles, which was plenty given the effort it took. It is also possible to go upstream a 1/2 mile or so from the outlet from Cheney Pond, but we didn't do that.
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