Stony Creek, PN info, pls.
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I’m interested in doing Stony Creek on April 5th. Someone was nice enough to send me info a couple of months ago, but changing to a new computer I lost the file. I know that it’s a III-IV and you can put in below the IV at the beginning at a bridge. Would like more info and would anyone like to show me down this creek?
Cathee, The Benscreek Canoe Club is just finishing the plans for this years Stonycreek Rendezvous. We will have free camping at the Conemaugh Twp. Ballfield in Hollsopple both Friday and Saturday night. On Saturday morning between 9 and 10 AM we will be meeting at the ballfield to set up shuttles and guide newcomers to put-ins and take-outs for the Stonycreek and any of the surrounding creeks (such as Shade, Quemahoning, Paint and several others) that offer everything from class I to class VI paddling (if El Nino is kind and doesn’t take our water away). There will also be lots of local paddlers that will be glad to show you the rapids, give advice on the river and likely paddle along with your group (any excuse to run the river!). We are also going to have a spaghetti dinner ($7.00) Saturday night at 5:30 at the Hollsopple firehall. Videos and beverages will be provided and their will be an auction with door prizes following dinner for some wonderful donated boating items. On Sunday we will also be having a Flatwater race (class I) from Hooversville to Hollsopple (8mi) at 10 AM (reg. from 8-9:30) and a wildwater race through the Stony canyon starting at 2 PM (reg. 12-1:30). Registration is $15/person and you get a cool T-shirt. You can get to Hollsopple by traveling north towards Johnstown on US Rt 219, exit on Rt 403 (Davidsville-Hollsopple exit) and turn east. Follow rt 403 into Hollsopple (about a mile) and turn left on rt 601 at the Wooden Indian Tavern (a sponsor with good food and beer, they can also direct you to the ballfield). If you stay on 403 and cross the river you will be near the firehall. After your turn left on 601 you go about 2 or 3 blocks and the ballfield is on your right (hard to see the turn, but if you miss it you will see the ballfield and can turn back). Hope to see you there. email me if you need more information. Rick Bloom
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April 4&5 is the Stony Creek WW Rendezvous. If the water is up, many people should be around. The RDV Meets at the ballfield (near the firehouse) in Hollsopple, PA. People are meeting between 9:00 and 10:00 am on the 4th at the ballfield. There is a race on the Canyon on Synday (probably, people will be boating as well). Contact. Steve Podratsky at (814) 266-9744 Ted – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m interested in doing Stony Creek on April 5th. Someone was nice enough to send me info a couple of months ago, but changing to a new computer I lost the file. I know that it’s a III-IV and you can put in below the IV at the beginning at a bridge. Would like more info and would anyone like to show me down this creek?
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I’m interested in doing Stony Creek on April 5th. Someone was nice enough to send me info a couple of months ago, but changing to a new computer I lost the file. I know that it’s a III-IV and you can put in below the IV at the beginning at a bridge. Would like more info and would anyone like to show me down this creek?
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where in PA is Stony Creek?
near Johnstown – good weekend trip for a clevelander. – Mothra (aka Kathy Streletzky) "Perhaps it was that, then – The fear, and dealing with that fear" – Corran Addison
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I’m interested in doing Stony Creek on April 5th. Someone was nice enough to send me info a couple of months ago, but changing to a new computer I lost the file.
My brother lives in Cleveland, so I am always interested in places in Western PA to go. My question, where in PA is Stony Creek? I didn’t see the date of the rendevous. Is it April 5, when the first poster asked about? Thanks, –Dan Cytron "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." –Margaret Mead My skydiving pictures website is at http://www.nightowl.net/~dcytron SOAR Inflatables, manufacturer and distributor of the SOAR Inflatable canoe, has a website at http://www.soar1.com.
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Kathy, Check the AWA schedule of events. The Stonycreek Festival is either the weekend of April 4-5 or the weekend of April 11-12. If you can get there for Festival weekend you will find LOTS of guides to hook up with, and lots of other stuff to do, as well as a temporary campground (the rest of the year there are no campgrounds nearby.) The usual put-in is Holzopple, which you will find on your map. Holzopple is not a large place, and if you look around a bit you will find the road that goes downriver along the left bank (I can almost remember the route number; state or county 611 maybe?) Just follow this road for about a mile and you will see the numbered route turn right (though the shuttle road goes straight ahead) across a nice new concrete bridge. There is a big graveled area just downstream river-left of this bridge, usually with a semi-trailer parked in it. As long as none of your vehicles block that trailer (in case the tractor comes back!) you will be fine. You can identify the take-out on your map by finding where Paint Creek enters the Stonycreek River; the takeout is downstream river right of the bridge that is a coupla hundred yards upstream from the mouth of Paint Creek. If the Stonycreek River is too high, run Shade Creek, which enters the Stonycreek almost opposite the put-in parking spot; the Stonycreek put-in is the Shade Creek take-out. When you reach the mouth of the Shade, just paddle across the Stonycreek, carry through a thicket to a dirt road, go left, and carry your boat a couple hundred yards up the Stonycreek to this gravelled parking area (or drop your boat where you come out of the thicket and drive down the dirt trail to pick it up if the dirt road is not to soft and muddy.) Put-in for Shade Creek is the bridge across the Clear Shade Creek about 100 yards above its confluence with the Dark Shade Creek. The confluence is the beginning of the Shade proper, and it is 10 or 11 miles from there to the Stonycreek River (though there is an intermediate put-in or take-out at PA Rt.1029.) Unfortunately it is over two years since I have paddled in that basin, and in my log-book I have described my runs in that area in terms of "Holzopple", "Paint", and "mouth of Clear Shade", rather than route numbers, except for 1029, so I really cannot remamber the route nembers for you. It’s so long since I’ve been there that I’d guide you, but I will be in Tnnessee from the 4th thru the 12th of April. — Richard Hopley, concise and to the point, as always. OC-1; Rockville, Maryland, USA, BBM; (301) 330-8265 Monocacy Canoe Club, Blue Ridge Voyageurs, Canoe Cruisers’ Ass’n, Greater Baltimore CC, Coastal Canoeists, Rhode Island Canoe & Kayak Ass’n, Carolina CC, Tennessee Scenic Rivers Ass’n, ACA, and AWA Note 1: To send me eMail, remove ".NoSpam" from my address Note 2: Sometimes I just forget to type in that smiley-face emoticon. Note 3: Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock’n'Roll.
