Due to Forecast Weather Conditions - This trip has been reschedule for March 7, 2020.
Trip Announcement
Ice Falls Trip
2/15/2020
Get your early paddling fix with the annual (open water permitting) Ice Falls Trip on Sugar Creek. This is a fun trip where you’ll see big ice cascades, rock formations, two covered bridges, herons, eagles, robins, and redwinged black birds returning for spring. This trip is very weather dependent for open water and appropriate dress is required. In some years, we wore only sweatshirts. In others, we wore snowsuits and needed paddles to clear snow from our cars at the takeout.
We will meet at Deers Mill Covered bridge at 10:30 a.m. The putin is at Deers Mill bridge, next to the canoe livery at the east end of Shades State Park on Indiana 234. You must pass the entrance to Shades to get to the bridge. The shuttle should run about 11:00 a.m. The takeout is at The Narrow’s Bridge with parking in the Lusk Historical building lot located at the East edge of Turkey Run State Park.
Bring a lunch and drink for the trip as there are no other provisions along the way. Please watch the weather and be sure to contact Dwayne prior to the trip since this trip may be cancelled due to frozen water or bad weather. If the water is frozen, or the temperature is below 30 F for the day, or if the water level is above 3.5 feet on the USGS gauge we will cancel the trip. Follow this link to check the flow: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/in/nwis/uv?site_no=03339500
Dress accordingly and be sure to bring a dry bag with extra clothes in case you get wet. Please contact Dwayne if you have any questions. Dwayne will post a no go/go email before 6 pm on Friday evening, February 14th. dwaynesjamesa1@hotmail.com
Cold Weather Paddling Tips– Jim Sprandel: During the winter, paddling is still enjoyable but you need to dress properly to be comfortable and safe. The Fort Wayne paddling group circulated the following links on how to survive if you fall through thin ice: http://www.archive.org/details/ColdWaterSurvival
http://www.archive.org/details/YoureOutNowWhat http://www.archive.org/details/Gett...tSinkingFeeling
If you want to paddle, be sure to paddle with other people. Especially during this time of year, there's safety in numbers.
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