10 - 3/13/2010 - Cedar River

This was yet another promising week. It looked like the Middle Middle might be over 1000, then possibly over 800, and then it eventually settled on a flow that was uncomfortably low. So, I went with a hardshell kayaker down the Cedar, which was low, but still acceptable. There was nobody at the takeout, but when we got to the put-in, there was a slalom race going on, and there would be a downhill race later in the day.

We had an easy trip. The weather was a mixture of sun and dark clouds, but it didn't rain on us. There were no new trees down or any problems. The one thing about the Cedar is that the 2009 flooding created a new channel at one point, and it splits the current for about a half mile. That means that we had around 200 cfs for that part of the river. Hopefully, the river will decide one way or the other sometime in the future.