Thurs 9/10: Meeting up in Bradford This is the trip that was almost stolen from us by COVID. For months, as the pandemic raged on, we wondered whether we would be able to pull off a trip at all and whether it would be advisable even to try. But we persevered - over the course of several months we talked out ways to socially distance from each other while camping (in case one of us unknowingly showed up infected) and researched other details (there's a surprising body of knowledge - mostly in the form of Youtube videos - out there about how to do COVID-safe kayak rescues). All along we kept planning, with the Adirondacks as our destination. Shortly before our trip a monkey wrench got jammed into the works when New York placed into effect a travel ban on residents from 35 states, including Maryland and Virginia. We hurriedly began scouting for alternatives in states without such restrictions and settled on Pennsylvania. For a while we kept planning the Adirondacks and the Alleghenies...
One man's journey into the great outdoors of Washington, DC and its environs.