5/25/2006

West Branch, Westfield River, Beckett, MA 5/13/06

We were supposed to meet at 10:30am and all was to be good. Brian and I drove together and arrived at the put-in about 10:15am. Shortly after, about 8-10 guys show up to put-in and Brian and I watch everyone get dressed and haul their boats to the water's edge. We are waiting for Ben and Bob to arrive so we watch everyone snap their skirts on their boats and float away. I turned to Brian and said it feels like we are grounded and unable to "play" today. So we find a seat on the tailgate and proceed to watch where the cars start to show through the leaves on the trees up the road. Brian says how long should we wait and all I can say is I don't know, Bob is not usually late. 5 mins go by and we decide that in 15 mins we are going to put-in at 12:15, not 3 mins later and we see a silver Subaru with two boats coming through the trees. Yippee, we are going boating. Almost 2 hrs later than expected but who cares?

We had a great run down the West Branch and then had time to head over to Walker Brook, which was a story in itself.


Put-in with the first group paddling away while we are long-faced.

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