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A Day Trip for thoughts of Kayaking on Snake Creek

If you're new here and want to explore Snake Creek for a future adventure, leave the Columbia Public Square on Hwy 55 N, Campbellsville Street. Go past the city limits and turn right on Hwy 551/Holmes Bend Road. Pass Bull Run Road then turn right on Snake Creek Road, after about six miles or so.

By Linda Waggener With Kayaking Guide Mitzi Bault


This trip was not one to actually get on the water in a tiny boat, but it was for scouting out conditions for the next trip by Mitzi and Robyn and others who regularly sail around the rivers and lakes of Adair and surrounding counties.



The water has been too high for this sport after the many rains of November and December 2018. Ricky says the lake is now getting about back to the winter pool level, however, where it stays through the season unless there's a flood.

Mitzi said, "A year ago the first week of December Robin Curry and I were kayaking around Holmes Bend on Green River in the warmer weather. You should go. It's the most peaceful thing in the world.

Even with temperatures in the fifties and sixties, however, it's too cold right now to go kayaking, plus Mitzi is giving her energy and attention to winning this third round of cancer. She is fighting hard with the newest form of chemo pill - a test to see if it will stop the tumor growth. She is not giving up!

Still her passion for kayaking doesn't go far from mind, so when I asked if she'd go with me on a photo search in the beautiful Green River area, she said, "Let's go!" And she drove so we could also work in some Kayaking scouting for spring along the way.


This story was posted on 2018-12-29 06:27:48
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Day Trip: intentions of kayaking on Snake Creek



2018-12-29 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener and Mitzi Bault, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
If you're new here and want to explore Snake Creek and Green River for a future adventure trips, leave the Columbia Public Square on Hwy 55 N, Campbellsville Street. Go past the city limits and turn right on Hwy 551/Holmes Bend Road. Pass Bull Run Road then turn right on Snake Creek Road, after about six miles or so. As this beautiful scene demonstrates, it's worth the trip.

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Day Trip: down Snake Creek Road looking for the Landing



2018-12-29 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener and Mitzi Bault, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Exploring conditions for future kayaking trips at the Snake Creek Landing on Green River, scenes like this one greet you. We're not there yet.

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Day Trip: checking out kayaking input conditions on Snake Creek



2018-12-30 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
We're here at the turn onto Snake Creek Road which will take you to Snake Creek Landing on the waters of the Green. If you're new here and want to explore Snake Creek for a future adventure, leave the Columbia Public Square on Hwy 55 N, Campbellsville Street. Go past the city limits and turn right on Hwy 551/Holmes Bend Road. Pass Bull Run Road then turn right on Snake Creek Road, after about six miles or so.

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Day Trip: photographing high water at Snake Creek Landing



2018-12-31 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Creeks, rivers and lakes are too high right now for kayaking but Mitzi Bault was my guide to one of the put-ins on a sunny day in November to explore conditions. Where Snake Creek meets up with Green River, there's a good place - Snake Creek Landing - but it was under water when we were there. Mitzi is shown in the photo at left taking a picture of where the landing would be if the water was at the normal level. All that could be seen were a few bush tops sticking out of the river marking the Landing.

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Day Trip: Can you see Snake Creek Landing? Neither could I



2018-12-31 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Mitzi Bault writes, "A year ago the first week of December Robyn Curry and I were kayaking around Holmes Bend on Green River in the warmer weather." This December brought waters that were too high and a major health challenge to keep the friends from getting out on the water. Mitzi did, however, take me on a sunny day trip to scout conditions on the Snake Creek put-in recently. She pointed out over the water and asked if I could see where the Landing was at the meeting of Snake Creek and Green River. I said no. She directed me to look to the opposite shore then bring my eyes back to about half way in the middle of the water - where some small bushes stuck out of the middle of the river, that's it! Hopefully when summer arrives, her health will have stabilized and the waters will have gotten back to normal levels, and the kayaking team will be out there once again.

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