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Things are looking up (or rather down)!
That big drop happened! Sometime Saturday night we’ll see water levels begin to drop 6″ or more. Doesn’t sound like much but it’s more than enough to get significantly more sandbars above water. At this point, trips beginning Sunday and…
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Choose your own adventure
New updates are out and they look good. Kind of. In a very relative way. The weather forecast also looks to be pretty stable with small passing rain showers totaling less than a 1/4″. We’re just so close to that…
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So painfully close
While the storms were a bit of a wild ride locally, it looks to have spared a lot of central and northern Wisconsin. That said, with the new river predictions out in the last hour, we’re just on the wrong…
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River conditions for 4th of July weekend
We’re so close! The latest river update avoids a spike in water levels, BUT, it’s right on the line for where we’d cancel overnight trips. It looks like we’ll have a handful of sandbars regardless but at this level, a…
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We’ve got a new website!
Over the course of the past few months I’ve been going back and forth over whether or not we needed to put together a new website. The old one had been working pretty well for the past 6 years and…
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Colorado River Canoe Trip
Another off-season activity – we’ll often run semi-private (friend of a friend kind of thing) trips to various parts of the world. In this case, we did 100 miles on the Colorado River below Moab, Utah to the confluence of…
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Building a canoe
I am often asked “What do you do in the winter?” and while the typical answer is “a lot of napping” it really depends. After the 2012 season, I took up amateur boat building with a great group of retired…