Paddle and foot mini-rogaine, Sunday June 13, Rochester, NY

Irondequoit Creek and Bay are surrounded by steep hills and valleys, including five county parks. Your challenge is to visit them all in one afternoon via canoe and/or kayak and foot. This is an opportunity to get to know one of our region's most amazing resources, which is now becoming more accessible. I think you will be as surprised as I was to discover beautiful areas in our midst that you never knew existed. And you will receive the only accurate map of the area and its trail system.

The format is a score-o with mass start at noon, finish at 5:00 pm, (with heavy penalties for overtime.) Visiting all contols might involve navigating in a maze-like creek and across the bay, a 20 foot portage between the raceway and the creek in Ellison Park, getting in and out of the boat many times, and climbing steep hills. Choose footware that can get wet and can climb hills. In order to get certain controls in Ellison Park, you may need to leave your boat in a heavily used area, so you might want to consider some kind of locking system. As usual, extra points will be awarded for garbage collected. There are mosquitos in the woods. They especially like people who are standing still trying to concentrate on a map!

People who don't want to paddle can also participate; there are enough controls accessible by foot to keep you busy for hours.

Start will be at the beautiful Irondequoit Wetlands Center off Empire Boulevard (NY 404). Go in at the signed County Park entrance on South side of the highway, just east of Froggy's restaurant, drive in to drop off boats, and then park as directed. Registration begins at 11:00 AM. The center has bathrooms. Maps will be handed out about 11:30. Boats can be rented at Bay Creek Paddling center (10 min. paddle to start) or Oak Orchard (20 min. paddle to start).

Entry fee $5 per person, $3 for club members. You may enter as a solo or team. To be sure of getting a map, please indicate your intention to participate by replying to rdlavine@frontiernet.net with the following information. Award categories will be decided depending on participants.

Name(s), sex and age of participants:
Team name:
Number and type of boats to be used:

Rick and Dayle Lavine