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==Boating== ==Boating==
The Kanektok River, varying from Class I (easy) to II (medium) on the ], is floatable by many kinds of watercraft. The upper reaches below Kagati Lake are sometimes too shallow for boats. Below this, swift currents, braided channels, logjams, and overhanging or submerged vegetation make the float "not a trip for beginners."<ref name="Jettmar">{{cite book|last=Jettmar|first=Karen|title=The Alaska River Guide: Canoeing, Kayaking, and Rafting in the Last Frontier|publisher=Menasha Ridge Press|location=Birmingham, Alabama|edition=3rd|year=2008|origyear=1993|pages=187&ndash;88|isbn=978-0-89732-957-6}}</ref> Dangers include rocky rapids in the {{convert|19|mi|km}} In high water, the difficulty along the upper {{convert|55|mi|km}} of the river may increase to Class III (difficult).<ref name="Jettmar"/> The Kanektok River, varying from Class I (easy) to II (medium) on the ], is floatable by many kinds of watercraft. The upper reaches below Kagati Lake are sometimes too shallow for boats. Below this, swift currents, braided channels, logjams, and overhanging or submerged vegetation make the float "not a trip for beginners."<ref name="Jettmar">{{cite book|last=Jettmar|first=Karen|title=The Alaska River Guide: Canoeing, Kayaking, and Rafting in the Last Frontier|publisher=Menasha Ridge Press|location=Birmingham, Alabama|edition=3rd|year=2008|origyear=1993|pages=187&ndash;88|isbn=978-0-89732-957-6}}</ref> In high water, the difficulty along the upper {{convert|55|mi|km}} of the river may increase to Class III (difficult).<ref name="Jettmar"/>


==See also== ==See also==

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Template:Geobox The Kanektok River is a 75-mile (121 km) stream in southwestern Alaska in the United States. Beginning in the Ahklun Mountains at Kagati and Pegati lakes, it flows westward into Kuskokwim Bay on the Bering Sea at the city of Quinhagak. Almost all of the river's course lies within the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge.

Boating

The Kanektok River, varying from Class I (easy) to II (medium) on the International Scale of River Difficulty, is floatable by many kinds of watercraft. The upper reaches below Kagati Lake are sometimes too shallow for boats. Below this, swift currents, braided channels, logjams, and overhanging or submerged vegetation make the float "not a trip for beginners." In high water, the difficulty along the upper 55 miles (89 km) of the river may increase to Class III (difficult).

See also

References

  1. Cite error: The named reference Place Names was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Alaska Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2010. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-0-89933-289-5.
  3. ^ Jettmar, Karen (2008) . The Alaska River Guide: Canoeing, Kayaking, and Rafting in the Last Frontier (3rd ed.). Birmingham, Alabama: Menasha Ridge Press. pp. 187–88. ISBN 978-0-89732-957-6.


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