BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//gotriadscene.com//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.6// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar of gotriadscene.com X-WR-CALDESC:In this calendar you will find information about events that y ou did save X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20120213T065943CET-5186hU1m5m@gotriadscene.com DTSTAMP:20120213T055943Z CATEGORIES:Personal CLASS:EVENT DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Dan River Fall Float with the Dan River Basin Assoc iation\nEvent Url: http://www.gotriadscene.com/event/detail/21353/Dan_Rive r_Fall_Float_with_the_Dan_River_Basin_Association\nEvent Date Begin: 2010- 06-05\nEvent Date End: 2010-06-05\n\nTake advantage of the long\, lazy day s of summer with the Dan River Basin Association as its First Saturday Out ing floats from Danville to Milton starting at 10:00 Saturday\, June 5\, f rom the boat ramp at Anglers Park (GPS coordinates:\n36.5584\, -79.3566). \n'For this leisurely 10.6 mile trip you can step back nearly 200 years\,' said Forrest Altman\, author of the Dan River Book. 'You'll travel in wha t feels like wilderness\, seeing almost no sign of the 21st century on eit her bank.'\nIn the relatively flat stretch from Danville to Milton are six navigation sluices built in the early nineteenth century to deepen the ch annel for the massive batteaux that carried cargo on the river. These wood en craft\, eight feet wide and 40 to 60 feet long\, drew only about nine i nches of water when fully loaded.\nThe navigation structures provide easy passage for modern canoes and kayaks through the rapids\, as well as color ful names that recall the bygone era when the river served as the only hig hway into the region.\nParticipants in the June 5 outing will pass through Julius Allen's Sluice\, Noble's Shoal Sluice\, Dix's Shoal Sluice at Hoga n's Creek\, Wilkinson's Shoal Sluice at Moon Creek\, Thomas's Fish Dam Slu ice below Rattlesnake Creek\, and Dodson's Fish Dam Sluice.\nFish dams\, b uilt by Native Americans and early settlers\, are low V-shaped or W-shaped rock structures that funneled fish into waiting nets or baskets as they r eturned seaward from their massive spawning runs. Descendants of these hug e fish populations\, now trapped by the dam at John H. Kerr Reservoir\, ar e celebrated with the striped bass tournament each April at Angler's Park. \nAbout a mile below Angler's Park is the site of Dix's Ferry\, near Hance 's Branch\, where President George Washington crossed the Dan on June 4\, 1791\, on his southern tour during the second year of his presidency. Fart her downstream are the sites of Hunt's Ferry and Blanch Ferry. \n \nThe ou ting will conclude at the public boat landing at Milton (Mill Town)\, foun ded in 1796 and\, like Danville\, a town that was a batteau port.\nFor mor e information and illustrations of the surrounding region\, see maps 27-32 of 'An Insider's Guide to the Dan River' (danriver.org).\nParticipants in the outing are asked to bring boat and paddles\, life jacket\, lunch and water\, to dress in layers of artificial (quick-drying) fabric and to sign a waiver.\nBoats may be rented from Three Rivers Outfitters\, 336-627-621 5 or www.3-R-O.com\, which will provide shuttle as well.\nTo reach Angler' s Park\, exit the Danville Expressway (US 58/US 29 By-Pass) at Dan Daniel Park exit. Turn east on River Park Drive (the opposite direction from Dan Daniel Park). Turn right on Northside Drive\; bear left at the front gate of North Water Pollution Control Plant to Angler's Park\, the southernmost point of the Riverwalk Trail.\nOutings and meetings of the Dan River Basi n Association are open to the public without charge.\nFor more information about the outing\, contact Trip coordinator Will Truslow\, 336-547-1903\, willtruslow@hotmail.com.\n\nStart time: 10 a.m. DTSTART:20100605T000000 DTEND:20100605T000000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Dan River Fall Float with the Dan River Basin Association TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR