Paddling the Cedar River is always an adventure. Twelve of us put in above Wakely Dam and paddled a couple miles down the flow. Then the fun begins. It is always a challenge to find the correct passage through the labyrinth of streams into the main body of the river. This is a screen shot from my GPS. It makes it look as though we are paddling through a nice open lake when instead it is a tangle of plants and beaver dams. The arm off to the left shows the first place we tried to get through without success. Then we retraced our steps and tried again. After struggling over a large beaver dam, we found ourselves in the nice, winding river.
The first place we could have taken out for lunch was occupied, so we paddled on to the lean-to. The squiggles at the bottom of the map indicate my walking around the area on shore where I found lots of trout lilies in bloom.
I always feel Placid Boatworks should use our group in their advertisements.
The clouds came in in the afternoon as we paddled back down the river.
Then back over the beaver dam. The entire paddle was about 10 miles.
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