{"id":3122,"date":"2018-09-16T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billheinz.net\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2019-05-10T18:14:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T23:14:35","slug":"9-8-2018-root-river-to-rushford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billheinz.net\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"9\/8\/2018 Root River to Rushford"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new trip today, still the Root River, but on for an additional 5.7 miles of unexplored River.\u00a0 We felt like Lewis and Clark finding our way down the river and knowing at the end we had to go over a dam–not sure of the ending at that point.\u00a0 The dam can be as much as a 5 foot drop to something less.\u00a0 Today it was simply a nice rapid ride over the dam with only some white water to give us some excitement.\u00a0 The anticipation made it a great day.\u00a0 We did start out today at\u00a059\u00b0\u00a0but ended with a pleasant 70\u00b0 sunny day, but a water temperature of only 60\u00b0.\u00a0 We have had some heavy rains and much flooding in our area so we were lucky to be able to make the trip.\u00a0 The water stage was 6.03 ft. near Houston and 10.7 ft. above Rushford.\u00a0 Trying to use the Rushford measure, because that is where we are, it appears we could definitely go up to 7 ft. and 12 ft. and still be safe for paddling.\u00a0 A good fact to know.<\/p>\n

Our paddlers for the day were; Bill, Teresa, Steve, and myself as we cruised along very fast today, we finished the full 15.7 miles of paddling in 3 hours and 30 minutes of paddle time and took a 45 min. break,\u00a0 we averaged 4.5 miles per hour and finished in a record time.\u00a0 We only had one river rule infraction this trip–a phone call was taken by Teresa–a forbidden function on the mighty river.\u00a0 We saw Eagles, Geese, and a few Ducks.\u00a0 A good trip, looking forward to one or two more this year, if the weather holds.<\/p>\n

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The Eagle just flew away, I only caught his feathers–too slow on the camera<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 3 mile bridge–3 miles from here to the original ending at Peterson<\/p><\/div>\n

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The only Sand Bar on the river today. A pretty one though<\/p><\/div>\n

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Irrigation Pump–stealing water from the river<\/p><\/div>\n

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One Eagle just took off from this tree<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Dam, doesn’t look like much today, but still fun going over it<\/p><\/div>\n

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