Today is supposed to be 102 degrees. Dennis and I decided to beat the heat and get on the river early. We got on the Dan river at Hart Access at 7:00am. We left home at 6:15am. The dam was releasing yesterday from 2-6 and we thought maybe we would still have some water since it takes 12 hours to reach the Fransisco river guage. At 7:00 the gauge was 1.6 but by the time we got out at 10:00 the gauge said 1.5ft. The temperature was 71 degrees at 7:00 but at 10:00 it was 92 degrees.
It was a fun day but the water was so low it was not as fun as it was the last time at 1.8ft. I rubbed more rocks today than I have in the last 6 months. I will wait until we have more water to do this section of the Dan river again. Also the access at the Big Creek bridge is very steep and you have to paddle up the Big creek to get out and the creek was real low. Only a small path was deep enough to get to the take out.
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