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All Skill Levels Welcome
Flatwater
Canoeing
and
Kayaking |
The Hoosier Canoe Club, founded in 1963, is a common adventure organization for outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy paddlesports, camping, wildlife and friendship. During the winter months the annual Activity/Trip Schedule is developed for the upcoming season and in early April becomes available to the membership. Trips are featured nearly every weekend from March through October. A monthly newsletter details each scheduled activity for time, meeting location, shuttle particulars, and other logistics. From calm flatwater to thrilling whitewater, the club's varied schedule has trips for all abilities and interests. |
Club trips
have
sponsors
that
are responsible for
setting a time
and place to meet, and deciding which stretch of what river will be paddled.
The
Club
typically does flatwater trips (mostly in Indiana) on
White
River,
Blue
River,
Sand
Creek,
Big Walnut,
Driftwood,
Chain
of
Lakes,
and
Flatrock.
Annual trip
favorites include
a
New
Year's
Day
Float,
the
Ice
Falls
Trip
down
Sugar
Creek,
Fawn
and
Pigeon
Rivers,
and the
Raccoon
Creek
Float/Campout
in
October
that
coincides
with
Parke
County's
Covered
Bridge
Festival..
Whitewater trips are open to members with the required skills and equipment. The Club always has a trip (or two) scheduled around Easter to take advantage of spring water flows. There are sure to be trips scheduled for the long weekends: Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. Other opportunities to paddle whitewater are frequent: Tellico, Ocoee, New River, Nantahala, Youghiougheny, Hiwassee, Cumberland Plateau and French Broad. All the classic southeast trips have been done at one time or another. Once or twice a year a trip opportunity comes along to go somewhere more exotic...our members have paddled in Utah, South America, Canada, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, Alaska and Maine.
Open water scheduled touring trips include Lake Monroe, Patoka Lake, Cataract Falls, North Carolina Coastal Waters, Lake Michigan, Ohio River and the Wisconsin Apostle Islands. Frequent weekend pickup trips occur when the weather is irresistible and the paddling spirit moves one to action. The club's growing segment of touring kayak paddlers has a large appetite for new, varied, and inviting waters.
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