Mighty Clinton River (MCR) !!: Spring Cleaning

Well it was supposed to be a cold weekend, while it was not warm, it wasn't too bad out! Our friends from Indiana had to cancel a trip planned for last Saturday (3/23/2013) and with the prediction for cold conditions none of the Local paddlers wanted to go out. The sun came out and it was a decent day out with levels around 1.65 feet, but we were not on the river. A hike was planned for Sunday to go and cut out a log at the stinky pipe, just after the A&L Doctor's Office put-in.

Prior to meeting up with the group, I took an early hike at the Holland Ponds area off Ryan Road. The great blue heron's are back and actively nesting! A few times they all left the nest and a few seemed to be "fighting" and squawking, pretty cool to see. On my way to Avon & Livernois I stopped off at Rochester Road bridge, off of Diversion, to see the rapid. The rapid looked decent and a guy named Adam was testing out his Go Pro camera set up by running the rapid a few times. Sounded like Adam runs the river on a regular basis and I'm sure we'll see him on the river some time.

At 11am Dale, Michelle, Jerry and I set out from the back parking lot and walked over to where the jam was. It took 45 minutes of cutting and dragging to get it out, but we got it!

After that we moved on down the road, down Diversion St to the East and parked in a new place where the road is now paved. From there we walked across the road into the woods towards the river to seek out the 'bunkers'. These bunkers were used back in WWII to test flash bombs and the land is supposed to be developed into a park, Bunker Park! On the way to the first bunker, we stopped and entered the old sewer hole, sounds bad but it's not too bad, really! We hiked around the bunkers then back along the river and out of the woods back across to our cars. Not too exciting of a day, but we got a log jam cleared and got in a short hike.

Here are a few pictures from the day.