Montgomery Bell State Park / Harpeth State Park - Jeanne

On Thursday, 7-9, Sara Kennedy and Jeanne Conatser (your Mboro Chapter Co- Chairs) visited Montgomery Bell and the Narrows at the Harpeth State Parks, and collected two Passport Stamps.  Found a friend who couldn't run away, and a VERY determined tree root! 

Narrows of the Harpeth River

Our joint paddle outing to the Narrows of the Harpeth River with the Highland Rim chapter started out with rain in the forecast.  Lynn Wilson and I decided to go on even though it was raining in Murfreesboro when we left.  By the time we got to the put in, the rain had stopped.  There were 12 kayakers – Naullain, his wife Tonya, Joan Hartvigsen, Ted from Memphis, Cindy Watson, Gary Kimbrell, two couples from Manchester and Murfreesboro.  There were plenty of barges to pull onto for breaks and lunch.  We paddled over to see the Montgomery Bell tunnel.   We had a great time and we literally had the river to ourselves because of the cloudy day.  Thanks to Naullain for organizing and leading us down the Harpeth River.

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Narrows of the Harpeth

TRIP REPORT: Narrows of the Harpeth 8-14-10

The Murfreesboro Chapter, The Highland Rim Chapter and the Clarksville Chapter participated in a wonderful float down the Scenic Harpeth River in Kingston Springs, TN.

Tony Jones, Dave Anderson, Joan Hartvigsen, Tom Hartvigsen, Suva Bastin, John Sneed, and Paul Schwab all endured the 100+ degree temperature. We swam a lot, sweated a lot, and enjoyed the trip despite the heat. The May floods brought much damage to the area, and caused major alterations to the landscape.  There were areas where we could see the flood water line almost 80 feet up. That's a MAJOR flood. Trees were mangled and shorelines shape-shifted and there were even more sandbars and they were in different places.

Looks like someone went in and moved them around, just to confuse us.

Suva & Tony enjoyed relaxing under the falls at the Narrows. The rest of the gang sailed on to the take-out. The area leading to the Narrows was overgrown and damaged and most did not want to trek into it. But, it was refreshing. Only slightly cooler than the river,which was like a warm bath.