What better way to experience your first overnight camping kayak trip than to take your whole family and friends along. I relied on my experience of prior overnight bike and hike trips but packing for 7 people seemed to accumulate lots of stuff and I seriously doubt all the stuff would fit into the kayaks and that the kayaks would be overloaded. The bad part of the Midwest, or at least Iowa, is that it's all heavily fertilized and chemically treated farmland around here. So even with the great filtration system out there I don't want to drink that water. That meant packing 9 gallons of water for a two night trip on top all the other stuff. Surprising though everything fit into the kayaks without a problem This trip was also the first time kayaking for our friends. Even loaded down they didn't have any problems of their new found sport. We all had an enjoyable 1.6 mile paddle from the Whitebreast beach to the Hickory Ride hike-in/paddl...
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