{"id":1301,"date":"2017-06-11T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billheinz.net\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2017-08-06T20:33:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T01:33:30","slug":"6102017-black-river-falls-to-irving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billheinz.net\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"6\/10\/2017 Black River Falls to Irving"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a day.\u00a0 We had some really nice conditions for the 4 of us that made the trip today.\u00a0 Jack Miller, Bill Peters, Tom Hundt, and Myself paddled all day into a 35 to 40 mile per hour wind.\u00a0 It was like paddling against a wall all day.\u00a0 If you dared to stop paddling, the wind would blow you upstream or spin you around and not allow you to correct your course.\u00a0 On some of the bends in the river, when the wind would hit you, it would almost roll your kayak over and swamp you.\u00a0 The other conditions for the day were 94 degree heat in the air, 73 degree warmth in the water, and a 4.2 foot River Stage (OK to Low) but very high steady winds,as we made our 12.7 mile journey from the City of Black River Falls to Irving Town Hall.\u00a0 We were pestered most of the day with Eagles toying with us, but as you can see in one of the videos–even they had trouble flying and certainly landing.\u00a0 We saw a small family of Ducks\u00a0 (about 7 ducklings) and the Mother taking them for a little swim.\u00a0 The trees were blowing out pollen all day like puffs of smoke–big puffs that covered the air and in many places the entire river.\u00a0 We finished our day’s journey in a record slow pace of 5 hours and 40 minutes, pretty bad, but if you consider paddling uphill all day long–the fact that we made it at all was terrific.\u00a0 We earned every foot of the trip today.<\/p>\n

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See the “Puff” of pollen being blown out of the trees?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Some group of inconsiderate S.O.B.’s had a party before we got there and did not invite us but somehow they expected us to clean up their mess.\u00a0 This is a prime example of how an “As@h@le” acts –no consideration for the anyone and lazy — can’t say enough about how low life this type of person is.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here we go running the rapids–the video shows Jack and Bill coming through them with flying colors and a smile on their face.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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