Trip Overview:  Maidstone Bridge to Moore Reservoir, June 2018, three days spent on the water, 37.6 miles paddled, one portage at Gilman Dam.

For this trip we picked up where we left off the year before in the northern region at Maidstone Bridge in Stratford NH. Our plan was to end the trip at Gilman Dam in Dalton NH. In order to get the most time on the water with such a long drive we decided to forgo camping and instead stay at the Lancaster Motor Inn for the duration of the trip. The weather was looking good for this trip. Skies would be partly sunny and temperatures would be around 70°F each day with a slight breeze at our backs.

Returning to the Maidstone Bridge

This access point has a step incline. Fortunately it hadn’t rained for awhile and the mud had dried out.

continuing down the small “headwaters” above Lancaster

Getting started

unwelcome

approaching the White Mountains

take out and put in at the Wyoming Dam

off to dinner at the Copper Pig

the old bank

We tried the Khaleesi, Litty Pig, and Kilkenny

Excellent beers

the new vault

a few months earlier at the Copper Pig

on to the Orne Bridge

take out and put in at the Orne Bridge

to Gilman Dam

above and below the Gilman Dam

the Portage

200′ of incline

or downhill

the rest is flat

to the Moore Reservoir pull out

until next time.