Canoeing Michigan Rivers

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Paperback: 139 pages

Publisher: Friede Pubns (June 1986)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0960858849

ISBN-13: 978-0960858842

Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.8 x 11.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)

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Adventure is the theme of this book. This isn't a book for the shelf, but one to read and then take onto the river. Michigan has an abundance of rivers flowing into the Great Lakes surrounding the state, with paddling opportunities few regions can match.The fun starts just reading about each river. The authors actually canoed all 45 rivers they profile in the book, 18 in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and 27 in the Lower. Each profile contains an overview of the river - the level of difficulty, the environment (wilderness, rural, or populated), flora and fauna, fishing prospects, the length and nature of any portages, and general characteristics of the water, such as clarity, depth and current.Rivers maps are broken into logical sections that can be paddled in a less than a day - most in about three to seven hours. By paddling multiple sections, you can take overnight trips - up to a week long - on many rivers. Numbered sections on the maps correspond to numbers in the text describing that portion of the river. Maps include launch and take out points; areas with rapids or other challenges are clearly indicated. Canoe liveries, when available, are listed for each river. Although the contact information has changed for some, updated information can be found online.When you push your canoe off a remote river bank as the sun rises, you hope you can paddle through the wilderness to your destination downstream before darkness falls. If the river is new to you, sometimes a guidebook is all you have to plan for that to happen. My wife and I have trusted this book many times, canoeing 15 of the rivers profiled, and it has never let us down. The authors state that they were conservative in estimating the paddle times, and we have always beat them, sometimes by hours.

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