Training Log Archive: levitin

Indian Lake from Morgan Park. Shore Park was overfilled with cars, picnickers, so not even a place to put a boat in. From Morgan Park put-in, I paddled CW past Shore Park, the I-190 embankment and headed south. I had noticed some power boats earlier, but the chop hadn't bothered me for most of the 1st mile, about to Shore Park. Once I turned south, the swell and the wind made it hard for me to make any forward progress, let alone in the direction I wanted to go. So I turned around and reversed the outbound course. Once I got to the west edge of the lake, the wind wasn't such an issue, and suddenly the power boats were either quiet or far away, so the chop was minimal.

At worst, the chop was maybe 8", but it was enough that I was feeling uneasy.

Reservoir loop.