Ritzhikes

Where: Farmington River above Collinsville, CT When: 6/21/97-6/22/97 With: Chip, Dave, Seth The annual excursion to Collinsville. As usual, Chip was the organizer and he proposed a couple of dates in mid-June. The weekend of the Solstice was good for everyone so we started the preparations. Chip, Seth & I made good use of our new Internet connections and did a fair amount of the planning via e-mail. Our first need was boats. We decided to go with smaller boats this year, so that meant leaving Dave's sea kayaks at home and renting three boats. Dave was elected to call Collinsville Canoe but they told him they had nothing to rent. Something going on, apparently. Chip & I called around Boston, but no one would rent us kayaks. We considered a number of options, including doing a hike instead or postponing the trip to later in the summer, but then Chip tried one more phone number. Somehow he found the number for Main Stream Canoe in a Boston phone book and got in touch wit...