Lowellville to Wampum, PA

Participants: 11 ? Mike Danko, Ron Eells, Jessica Hoffart, Jacob (Mike's cousin), Mike Delbene, Bruce and Dianne Ambrose, Rich and Patty Allen, Eric Zamary, John Paul Tolson

Boat Count: Nine ? five kayaks, four canoes, but six canoeists and five kayakers. Ed, does that mean canoes win?

Gage reading at Mosquito Creek Dam near Cortland, Ohio: 2.63 feet. This was about two feet over normal levels, according to Mike, due to a water release from Mosquito Lake.

Put in: Kennedy Park, Niles, Ohio
Take out: Kennedy Park, Niles, Ohio (trip was an out and back from Kennedy Park both up river to beyond Rte 224 and down river to Niles High School; no shuttle)

Distance paddled: between four and five miles?

Air temperature in the 30s; occasional light wind, sunny skies ? it really wasn't too bad in spite of the air temperature.

Cache River Wildlife Refuse
Ken and Cheryl Louisville, Oh

Putting up mile markers and bridge signs from Rotary Park to Swift Park.

Jessica and I did a Paddle from Canoe City to Packard Park. Got to see the Bald Eagle that nest on the Mahoning

Canoe City Park to Packard Park: 3.3 on the Leavittsburg Gauge. About 36 boats on the water, some others did an up & back to Eagle Creek

Mill Creek to Lowellville; July 24, 2011

20 boats (19 kayaks and one lonesome canoe; guess whose!); 20 paddlers

Gage reading at Lowellville 2.98; gage reading at Leavittsburg, 3.26

Lowellville, OH, to Covert Road Bridge, Edinburg, PA; October 23, 2011

17 boats (14 kayaks, three canoes); 17 paddlers plus Fluffy and Rogue

Gage reading at Lowellville: 4.0 ft.