0. Barberville Falls to Route 351

Bob Malinowski shared: This is a fun class 3-4 creek section from the base of Barberville Falls to Route 351. Barberville Falls is class VI and would likely cause serious injury or fatality if run, so it's important to stress walking the trail from Blue Factory Road to the base of the Falls. I ran this last week (May, 2012) and there is some wood in it. Description below, but I intend to cut out 2  (#1 and #3) of the hazards tomorrow night. Wood hazard #2 is a big project and should be able to be run on river left when the water is higher. Wood Report: The first (#1) is around the first left turn near the top of the run. Scrubby, bushy trees, river wide. The second (#2) portage is below the multi-stage ledge drop. Lots of trees on river right where the water is deepest. You may be able to skirt this mess on river left at higher water, so scout if you're unsure. We may be able to cut these half way across and widen the left line. Removing all of them would be a project since it's all land slide material on river right. The third (#3) is a lone pine about 12" in diameter near the bottom of the run. It's in one of the new man-made channels built to fix the Irene destruction. It's passable on extreme river right and should be less of a problem at higher levels. The channel is a long, fast, straight shot, and has no eddies before the tree. If the river is high, you're pretty much committed to skirt the tree on the right when you enter the channel. We should be able to get this one out, but it's the only one with no public access from land...we'd have to get it by boat. Capital Region Area Reaches Basic Creek Batten Kill Claverack Creek Cobleskill Creek Fox Creek Hannacrois Creek Hoosic Hudson (Lock 2) Kinderhook Creek  (1.) Kinderhook Creek  (2.) Kinderhook Creek  (3.) Kline Kill Normans Kill (1.) Normans Kill (2.) North Chuctanunda Creek Mohawk (Upper Cohoes Wave) Mohawk (Cohoes Wave) Poesten Kill (0.) Poesten Kill (1.) Poesten Kill (2.) Quacken Kill Schoharie Creek Stony Kill Wyant's Kill Google Map of New York Whitewater New York Whitewater Paddlers Facebook Group