Start: 6:30 AM - Little Falls, NY
Finish: 5:00 PM - Utica, NY (Lock 20)
Time: 10:30 (2:30 spent in town w/ Otto and Larry)
Daily dist: 24 miles
Total dist: 3700+
Companions: Otto
Weather: Mostly cloudy, high of 80, west wind 7-10 mph
Notes: Very nice camping at lock 20
1) It had to be far enough above the water so that a large wake at high tide wouldn’t flood it out.
2) It had to be at least as big as my tent.
Those seem like simple enough stipulations but many times I had to stretch one or both of those rules in order to call a spot of land campable.
With a warm full belly and an overstuffed kayak, I said good by and headed west.