help_outline Skip to main content












Traverse Area Paddle Club

Remember: all TAPC outings are listed on our event calendar and are color coded using this scheme:

 

Small Inland Lakes   

Great Lakes   

Easy Rivers 

Intermediate Rivers  

Difficult Rivers 
Clean-up Trips 

Out-of-town Trips 

If you need help using the website you may call the Club Express

Help Desk at

(866) 457-2582

Monday - Friday,

8:30 AM - 7 PM Eastern Time

Trip Reports

September 3 Pere Marquette

Published on 9/3/2013
We gathered at the Bowman Bridge put-in about 10:30, by 11 we were on the river paddling.  There were 9 of us paddling, including Gerald & Sue, Marv & Marlene, Tracie, Gail, John & Lois and me.
 
The Pere Marquette is a nice slow moving river and the weather was nice and sunny.  We encountered a few salmon fisherman and a couple of canoes. We stopped at Rainbow Rapids for lunch.  Everyone, including me, managed to stay in their boats and keep them upright.  There was a quick stop at Sulak and shortly down river we watched a couple fisherman wrestle with salmon.  Then we paddled down to Upper Branch Bridge where we pulled out.  After loading up and shuttling back to Bowman Bridge we stopped for some ice cream at Jones in Baldwin.
 
written by Elizabeth "Lee" Jenkins