Friday, May 27, 2005
2005-05-25, The Trent River pictures
2005-05-31, paddling The Trent River from State Road #1129 to Route 58,
2005-05-31, paddling The Trent River from State Road #1129 to Route 58, this coming Tuesday.
This section of the Trent is really amazing. The distance from put-in to take-out is 2.6 miles by air.
By water, as describe in Paul Ferguson's, "Paddling Eastern North Carolina", Section #1, it is 5.8 miles.
To see why it is more than twice as far by water than as the crow flies, see his map on page 286. The river twist and turns constantly. It is about as pretty as it gets.
We will meet and put-in at Chinquapin Chapel Road (Jones Co.) State Road #1129. at 10:00. We will take-out at Route 58.
If some can arrange for shuttle vehicles to be left at 58 that will save us a lot of time setting up a shuttle.
We know we will encounter blown downed trees. We need a chain saw or two up front in a tandem canoe. And we need good weather. The long range forecast is for a thunderstorm. One short thunderstorm in summer weather should not make us miss a whole day of paddling.
Please confirm to me we will have a chainsaw. ( Dale has already said yes.) Choppers and clippers and hand saws are good too. We will not try to clear the whole river. Just quickly cut a hole through big enough for us to get through so we can get off the river by 3:00.
I will advise all early Tuesday morning go or no go. Rain date is Friday, June 3rd.
REPORT ON LAST WEEK'S TRIP
This is our report on last weeks trip, 2005-05-25, from Comfort to # 1129. We are so in love with The Trent River that we just have to continue on down, blockages or not.
At the out set we talked with Commissioner Battle of Jones County who gave us permission to park our vehicles on his premises behind the his store. While we were talking to him Commissioner Frank Emory came in and told us he was joining us on our paddle today. This was a very pleasant and welcome surprise.
We put-in down the dirt road behind the store at the river. The Trent River Gauge was at about 4.75 feet which turned out to be good water. The current was slow here but as we paddled on Jim Stevens clocked us on his GPS at 3.8 miles per hour.
We encountered strainers and blown down trees across the river. We managed to get by, cut through, go under or over all of them.
In spite of this we planned to paddle the next section upstream but not being able to find an access on that lang stretch we decided to go downstream as outlined above. We can do 15 miles or more a day with out blow downs and picking up litter.
The participants were, L/R in #1450, Sam Shalhoub, from Jacksonville,Jones County Commissioner, Frank Emory, Dale Weston, from Jacksonville and Tom Fineco and Jim Stevens, from New Bern. In # 1451 Tom and Jim pulling a large floating log away from blocking our downstream pasage.
Check out this image I found on TerraServer-USA:
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspxT=2&S=13&X=173&Y=2426&Z=18&W=1
for map of this section .
Go to our web site and click on Current Events and then Older Write Ups and you can read about and see pictures of three trips we made in 2003 on this lovely river.
This section of the Trent is really amazing. The distance from put-in to take-out is 2.6 miles by air.
By water, as describe in Paul Ferguson's, "Paddling Eastern North Carolina", Section #1, it is 5.8 miles.
To see why it is more than twice as far by water than as the crow flies, see his map on page 286. The river twist and turns constantly. It is about as pretty as it gets.
We will meet and put-in at Chinquapin Chapel Road (Jones Co.) State Road #1129. at 10:00. We will take-out at Route 58.
If some can arrange for shuttle vehicles to be left at 58 that will save us a lot of time setting up a shuttle.
We know we will encounter blown downed trees. We need a chain saw or two up front in a tandem canoe. And we need good weather. The long range forecast is for a thunderstorm. One short thunderstorm in summer weather should not make us miss a whole day of paddling.
Please confirm to me we will have a chainsaw. ( Dale has already said yes.) Choppers and clippers and hand saws are good too. We will not try to clear the whole river. Just quickly cut a hole through big enough for us to get through so we can get off the river by 3:00.
I will advise all early Tuesday morning go or no go. Rain date is Friday, June 3rd.
REPORT ON LAST WEEK'S TRIP
This is our report on last weeks trip, 2005-05-25, from Comfort to # 1129. We are so in love with The Trent River that we just have to continue on down, blockages or not.
At the out set we talked with Commissioner Battle of Jones County who gave us permission to park our vehicles on his premises behind the his store. While we were talking to him Commissioner Frank Emory came in and told us he was joining us on our paddle today. This was a very pleasant and welcome surprise.
We put-in down the dirt road behind the store at the river. The Trent River Gauge was at about 4.75 feet which turned out to be good water. The current was slow here but as we paddled on Jim Stevens clocked us on his GPS at 3.8 miles per hour.
We encountered strainers and blown down trees across the river. We managed to get by, cut through, go under or over all of them.
In spite of this we planned to paddle the next section upstream but not being able to find an access on that lang stretch we decided to go downstream as outlined above. We can do 15 miles or more a day with out blow downs and picking up litter.
The participants were, L/R in #1450, Sam Shalhoub, from Jacksonville,Jones County Commissioner, Frank Emory, Dale Weston, from Jacksonville and Tom Fineco and Jim Stevens, from New Bern. In # 1451 Tom and Jim pulling a large floating log away from blocking our downstream pasage.
Check out this image I found on TerraServer-USA:
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspxT=2&S=13&X=173&Y=2426&Z=18&W=1
for map of this section .
Go to our web site and click on Current Events and then Older Write Ups and you can read about and see pictures of three trips we made in 2003 on this lovely river.
Monday, May 23, 2005
2005-05-25, The Trent River
2005-05-25, this Wednesday, Trent River from Comfort to Chinaquin Bridge Road S.R. #1129.
Everybody loves the Trent River. We have paddled it and removed litter from Pleasant Hill to The Neuse.
We meet at 10:00 at the Post Office at Comfort on Route 41. We take out at the first bridge above. We should be off the river about 3:00. See Paul Ferguson's book "Paddling Eastern North Carolina" for map of the take-out location.
Jones County was instrumental in clearing a trail for us on The White Oak River. This is in some small way will be our expresssion of thanks and appreciation of what they have done for us on our White Oak.
Bring a chain saw if you can.We don't think we will need it but who knows what Mother Nature has done.
Have you e-mailed your support for House Bill H1125. If not please do so now. This is extremely important that you all do this if you want to stop littering.
Please contact the chairs of the House Transportation Committee, listed below, and ask them to support HB 1125 to curtail littering at the source.
Rep. Lucy Allen, 919-733-5860, lucya@ncleg.net Rep. Becky Carney, 919-733-5827, beckyc@ncleg.netRep. Cary Allred, 919-733-5905, carya@ncleg.net Rep. Bonner Stiller, 919-733-5974, bonners@ncleg.net
For more click on this:
http://home.earthlink.net/~grumpy511/Iwillnotlitter/index.html
For a humourous story and great pictures click on this:
http://home.earthlink.net/~grumpy511/050519trollingonthewhiteoaktroll/page4.html
Y'll come.
Elmer, The White Oak River TrashmanStewards of the White Oak River BasinPlease visit: www.whiteoakstewards.org 910-389-4588--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everybody loves the Trent River. We have paddled it and removed litter from Pleasant Hill to The Neuse.
We meet at 10:00 at the Post Office at Comfort on Route 41. We take out at the first bridge above. We should be off the river about 3:00. See Paul Ferguson's book "Paddling Eastern North Carolina" for map of the take-out location.
Jones County was instrumental in clearing a trail for us on The White Oak River. This is in some small way will be our expresssion of thanks and appreciation of what they have done for us on our White Oak.
Bring a chain saw if you can.We don't think we will need it but who knows what Mother Nature has done.
Have you e-mailed your support for House Bill H1125. If not please do so now. This is extremely important that you all do this if you want to stop littering.
Please contact the chairs of the House Transportation Committee, listed below, and ask them to support HB 1125 to curtail littering at the source.
Rep. Lucy Allen, 919-733-5860, lucya@ncleg.net Rep. Becky Carney, 919-733-5827, beckyc@ncleg.netRep. Cary Allred, 919-733-5905, carya@ncleg.net Rep. Bonner Stiller, 919-733-5974, bonners@ncleg.net
For more click on this:
http://home.earthlink.net/~grumpy511/Iwillnotlitter/index.html
For a humourous story and great pictures click on this:
http://home.earthlink.net/~grumpy511/050519trollingonthewhiteoaktroll/page4.html
Y'll come.
Elmer, The White Oak River TrashmanStewards of the White Oak River BasinPlease visit: www.whiteoakstewards.org 910-389-4588--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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