A Paddler's Guide to the Champlain Valley
Authors: Margaret Holden and Catherine Frank
In their regional bestseller, A Kayaker s Guide to Lake Champlain, now in its 3rd printing, Catherine Frank and Margaret Holden offered detailed paddling tours circumnavigating America s other great lake. Now, in A Paddler s Guide to the Champlain Valley, they explore the interior, the waters within the seven basins of the Champlain Valley, the Missisquoi/Pike, Lamoille, Winooski, Otter/Lewis, Saranac/Chazy, Boquet/Ausable, and Poultney-Mettawee South Lake, with 42 guided adventures, supplemented by 28 sidebars and over 60 pages of introductory background on the history, geology, botany, wildlife biology, and ecology of the region and the environment challenges it faces. The result is a well-rounded primer and field guide for kayakers and canoeists on a remarkably rich and diverse watershed that connects Vermont, New York and Quebec. With 130 full color photographs and 55 full-color maps.
Paperback, 401 pages
Publisher: Black Dome Press