This year I had the opportunity travel to Old Forge New York for the famous northern kayak gathering of MooseFest. It was my first time to MooseFest and actually to the Moose River as well, which was a real treat. The River itself is a true gem with big slides, cool rapids, tons of boots and gorgeous colors with a mix of brightly colored kayak and amazing autumn leaves. I also found out that the MooseFest is home to the Moose Race which is the last of the King of New York Series. Pat Keller showed me down the course for my first time and then we drove back up to start the race. I had a rough idea of were I needed to go but I still hit a lot of rocks on my way down for a #2 finish behind Pat himself. It was an amazing race course with some real gradient and full on rapids. I hope to be back next year to try my luck at it again.
We didn’t have the greatest of weather, with the first snow of the season falling during the Saturday, only to be followed by waking up to more snow on Sunday. Though despite the less then ideal weather the rivers, kayak shop and bars was all filled with paddlers.
After the dust had settled and the weekend was over I still hadn’t seen any Moose, though I did see plenty of Deer, paddled an epic river, raced some waterfalls, hung out with old friends, met some new friends and had a really really good time.
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