Forded the Kennebec River in Maine today. Northbound hikers advised us to just ford it in the morning before they released water to drive timber downstream. It got up to my crotch.
I wore my boots without socks to make the trip, and we exchanged cameras to photo each other as we did the trip.
This next screen capture is from the USGS Stream Gauge data base (online) where you can retrieve stream flow data. You see on this date, the river was above normal flow (triangles), but from the pictures above, above normal was really not too deep for hikers.
Today, the ATC advises not to do this and offers a free summer boat shuttle.
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