Paddling the Cedar River

Eight of us put in to Cedar River Flow and paddled up the river a bit.  Some of the group had been there recently so, unlike other years, we did not spend a lot of time looking for the correct route.  At first we weren't even sure we were going to paddle.  It rained off and on for most of the 1 1/2 drive to get there.  It wasn't raining when we all had the boats ready to go but then it started sprinkling.  High winds were also forecast, but we decided to paddle for a bit anyway since we were there.  It did not rain most of the time, but we got sprinkled on a bit, and much more as we were coming back.  The wind was behind us going upstream and wasn't as bad as we expected when we paddled back to the cars.  The photo shows what the weather looked like.  And it was cold as well.

We kept going until we got to a campsite on the left that folks had stopped at before.  The blue route below shows how far we got, for a total of 7 miles round trip.  The red route is a previous one where we had gone all the way to the lean-to.