Monday, June 5, 2017

Getting the Jump on June

As is their custom the New Hampshire Appalachian Mountain Club paddlers conducted a "Trash Patrol" on the first Saturday of the new month.
Around a dozen boats (canoes and kayaks) launched from the Nashua River's Millyard Office Park Boat Ramp.

The launch is now operated by the City of Nashua and sports a kiosk and new signage...

Under Denise Hurt's direction paddlers worked a 2 mile stretch of the river upstream from the boat launch. 

Paddlers recovered trash from behind fallen branches...
..and fallen trees...


 Once sorted and bagged the trash looked almost presentable...
Along with bags of recyclable containers and non-recyclable rubbish were a wheelbarrow, traffic cone, bicycle, and truck tailgate.   All of it "better out than in".



The following day, back in the Bay State, I enjoyed a serene Sunday morning paddle on the Concord River from Egg Rock down to Davis Hill and back.

The Old North Birdge...

A stand up paddleboarder...

Trash was on the light side until the contents of a single floating plastic "Party Bag" filled my crate...

Because the bag had been securely tied before being released into the river its contents: 20 Solo cups, 12-pack of Bud cans, and 7 empty Gatorade bottles were prevented from going their separate ways...

This musquash with a voracious appetite was oblivious to all except the green shoots of grass it was eating...

The river looking north had the look of June...

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