4-29-12 Winooski River

I have spent a fairly large amount of time on the water in my life in kayaks, canoes and sparingly sailboats.  As it gets back into the season my urges become stronger and I ended up on the Winooski River above the Vergennes Dam.

It was beautiful (as you can see above) but windy.  So windy, in fact, that when I turned around and tried heading back down stream the wind was producing whitecapped waves heading upstream.  I quickly discovered that those same winds were equally capable of pushing me upstream as well.  Moral of the story: sometimes despite all expectations you will have to paddle both ways,