Photo – Craig Kleckner doing another one of his ridiculous back PanAms at Inner City Wave on the Black River
The month of August has been a mix of summer road trip recovery and northeast playboating. Here’s a lil bloggings of Inner City Wave on the Black, low level Ottawa, and a visit to Rochester’s Lock 32.
After hanging out with the Campbell’s for a couple of days on the Black River surfing Hole Brothers and watching the water level steadily decrease, Dave and I headed up to the Ottawa for some classic fun. We heard it was -3.5 and Garb was out, but we hoped our luck would change and the river would suddenly spike. It didn’t. It got lower. But, hanging out at the Ottawa is always a good time and there were still a multiple of surf options.
Here’s Matt Hamilton during a PushButton night session.
Surfing Left Side McCoy’s….the hungry beaver?
After some good days on the Ottawa, we headed back home. While hanging out in Buffalo, I heard that it had been raining upstate and the Black had gone up 10,000 cfs since I had been there last…. meaning Inner City was in. I debated whether it was worth driving the 3.5 hours back up for and after 3 long days of awesome and tiring surfing, concluded that it is TOTALLY worth it. It’s rare to find a sweet wave with eddy access and no lines! Next time even I won’t even think twice about driving there from twice the distance.
Craig doing an assortment of BROWN tricks
Jeremy Laucks did thousands of stout clean BROWNS
After hanging out a couple of more days in Buffalo, Dave and I headed to Rochester for an event at Rochester’s Lock 32. A lot of people came by the whitewater course to try out Molans and Burns. Thanks to Danny and Paul for organizing the event and giving free whitewater clinics throughout the day.  If you’re in the area you should check it out http://www.geneseewaterways.org/kayaking.htm Lock 32 is a perfect place for people of all abilities and it was great to see lots of people of all ages and skill levels out there practicing their ferries, rolls, wet exits, carthweels, and loops.
