On a grey, cool May day with rainshowers in the hills, I decided to paddle from the Valleyview Boat Launch.    There was no wind at the start, but it was only 4 degrees.

The sun started to shine through filtered clouds over the calm river.   I paddled upstream for 3.6 km.

A wind out of the southwest rippled the water and helped in my upstream paddle.  There were no other boats on the river.

I turned around at about the Pineridge Golf Course and came back on the other shore, now into a 10 km headwind.

This was a 1.5 hour paddle, a good workout wedged in between weather systems.   I turned on the GPS watch at about the 1.4 km mark and then created this video from the track.

Relive ‘Valleyview River’