Floating Parade

It was a floating parade of kayaks and tubes at the Argo Cascades on the Huron River on Sunday, June 26, 2016. No special occasion. Just another day in Ann Arbor.

On Golden Pond

Transforming Argo

Work to reconstruct the Argo Dam headrace on the Huron River in Ann Arbor is moving along quickly. Livonia-based TSP Environmental, the firm hired last year to complete the $1.17 million project, has been hard at work since August. In a few short months, its crews have transformed the headrace — a 1,500-foot channel that canoeists and kayakers use to bypass Argo Dam — into a new series of drop pools surrounded by rocky formations. Other new features coming with the project include a wider and smoother Border-to-Border trail section and a 30-foot bridge along that trail that was installed this week. Read the story.

Argo To Gallup

Some images from a kayaking trip down the Huron River from Argo to Gallup on Saturday. The highlight was definitely meeting a pair of West Highland Terriers named Mac and Coconut, a.k.a. "Coco." Also, I won't type it all out here, but ask me sometime about the old man standing in the river and how I almost tipped my kayak trying to photograph him.