{"id":1483,"date":"2009-06-28T22:25:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T03:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2009-06-28T22:33:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T03:33:01","slug":"kayaking-glendale-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/kayaking-glendale-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking Glendale Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"p6120123\"I\u00a0prefer creek\u00a0and river paddling over flatwater paddling, but\u00a0some of my most memorable solo trips occured\u00a0while\u00a0flatwater kayaking in the evening. One recent flatwater\u00a0kayak trip in June of 2009 was on Glendale Lake at Prince Gallitzin State Park<\/a>.\u00a0Actually I grew up near Prince Gallitzin State Park but I never bothered putting a canoe or kayak on Glendale because it seemed\u00a0a lake\u00a0organized for boating and fishing and with high boating traffic. So after twenty years of ignoring Glendale as a paddling opportunity, while on a recent visit with family I decided to spend a quiet\u00a0evening on the lake in my kayak.<\/p>\n

Glendale Lake has 26 miles of shoreline with nine public boat launches providing\u00a0convenient access to various sections of the large 1600 acre lake, but despite the multiple launches I think one of the most difficult things about paddling Glendale is\u00a0paddling without playing chicken with\u00a0the pontoon boats, as I’ve experienced so many times on Pennsylvania State Park lakes.<\/p>\n

\"p6130164\"I\u00a0arrived at\u00a0Glendale Lake on\u00a0a Wednesday evening, and after visiting several boat launches I decided to launch my kayak at the\u00a0Turtle Cove Mooring Area\u00a0with the intention of paddling to the Old Dam section located in a more remote part of the lake. It looked easy on the map and in a few minutes\u00a0I reached\u00a0the opposite side of the lake to a\u00a0location called Deer Inlet. I took advantage of the low boating activity and calm water to practice a few paddling techniques. I\u00a0then checked out some shoreline wildlife activity before advancing my way to the remote Old Dam section. Once rounding Troxell Point\u00a0and entering the Harris Narrows I\u00a0questioned that maybe the remote section of the lake wasn’t so remote as I encountered\u00a0three pontoon boats anchored\u00a0from shore to shore directly opposite each other, creating\u00a0one narrow channel of passage. I really wasn’t too concerned over this and proceeded on a course between the boats, until two other boats appeared in my path\u00a0bearing directly toward me. Now I realize that Glendale Lake has a 20 hp limit, but when you’re in a kayak on a windy day almost anything with an motor can appear to be bearing down on you. This is where the peaceful\u00a0kayak trip\u00a0ends and the familiar game of chicken with pontoon boats begins – and I was in no mood for this. Most motorboat operators\u00a0respect paddlers, but some don’t and\u00a0often\u00a0watch\u00a0as\u00a0the paddler either rides their wake or sinks trying.<\/p>\n

Allowing these boats to discourage me from my trip to the Old Dam section, I\u00a0decided to paddle to the breast of the\u00a0lake for sanctuary from the\u00a0boating traffic. At this point I shared a small cove with a canoe where I\u00a0found an old rusting machine that appeared to be a dredge on what I think\u00a0might be\u00a0where the Old Glendale Road Trail meets the lake. I paddled the shoreline where I shot some photos, only to be invaded by a boat settling in for a night of fishing. With no other plan I headed back to\u00a0Deer Inlet\u00a0to hopefully\u00a0experience the nocturnal\u00a0creatures come to life when I noticed raindrops hitting the surface of the lake; I decided\u00a0to end my paddle.<\/p>\n

\"p6130168\"On my way back to Turtle Cove I took a few minutes to paddle around the Beaver Valley Marina. It was an interesting view of the various pontoon and sailboats\u00a0docked at\u00a0the marina and turned out to be the best view of wildlife I’d seen on my entire two hour paddle. I eventually paddled over to the Turtle Cove Mooring Area and watched the sunset as plenty of boaters launched for some\u00a0night fishing. After a few minutes of this I ended my paddle.<\/p>\n

My first Glendale\u00a0paddle was interesting but ended with\u00a0the feeling that I missed some\u00a0excellent evening paddling that I’m sure Glendale Lake has to offer. Next time I’ll launch\u00a0at the Mud Lick and Killbuck Run area.<\/p>\n

If you have paddling knowledge of Glendale Lake leave a comment with some suggestions on where to paddle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0prefer creek\u00a0and river paddling over flatwater paddling, but\u00a0some of my most memorable solo trips occured\u00a0while\u00a0flatwater kayaking in the evening. One recent flatwater\u00a0kayak trip in June of 2009 was on Glendale Lake at Prince Gallitzin State Park.\u00a0Actually I grew up near … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}