Kayak Session Magazine

RECREATION AND WATER QUALITY RELY ON WATER QUANTITY

Rivers are dynamic systems, something we know intuitively as paddlers. We follow their flow gages, nearby weather patterns, and headwaters snowpack levels, all to determine when they will be flowing at the perfect level we've been waiting for. As their flows rise, our heart rates do too. It's a signal that one of, if not the, key ingredients for quality river time is the quantity of water flowing down a river at any given time. Yet that rise and fall

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