Mile 427.3 - RBD Reid Bedford Point

427.3 RBD Reid Bedford Point

Sandy bluff thrown against the right bank in dramatic cut-out below Reid Bedford Point. Possible emergency camp alongside the vigorous eddy here formed. Good protection form northerlies, northwesterlies and westerlies, but open to the south. Hunting camps not far downstream in the woods, and hunting roads not far over the bank. We found good protection here in one time with the river at 15.2 VG. We dove into the calm water and harbor out of a windstorm which slammed us out of the northeast. The winds were gusting to 30mph causing massive dust storms on the Racetrack Sandbar, from my notes: “We're camped out under the full moon with the wind howling through the trees above us, found a great protected shelter from the wind in a keyhole behind the end of a rip rap bank at the outside of Reid Bedford Bend 427.5 RBD. Steep bank with a nice collection of driftwood and a giant eddy pool below us. An island of sand on the opposite side being sand-blasted in high winds out of the north.