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Hazard WI

Sweepers

Baird Creek - Moon Valley Drive to end of gradient (<0.5 mile) (WI)

Monitor this Rapid
Gauge Conditions
Plum Creek near Wrightstown, WI Downstream Primary
Runnable: 200.0 – 800.0 CFS

Almost certainly too low for reasonable whitewater boating. (Likely less than 100 cfs. Correlation not assured.)

Primary
Runnable: 90.0 – 360.0 CFS

Absolutely too low for any reasonable whitewater. (Likely less than 100 cfs. Correlation not assured.)

Primary
Runnable: 125.0 – 400.0 CFS

Boat abuse! (Too low for any real whitewater.)

Data from American Whitewater & USGS
Photo
Sweepers
Photo courtesy of American Whitewater
Description

Downstream of the Parking Lot Ledge, increasingly you have to be concerned with overhanging branches from trees and shrubs on shore ('sweepers'). Look well ahead, and plan well-ahead, to avoid becoming entangled in these. It takes considerable skill to keep from being swept into them and from having your paddle wrested from your hands if you are swept through them.

NOTE: The photo above is looking UPSTREAM ... the water is coming toward you, around a LEFT-HAND bend, where you will be swept toward these overhanging branches on the outside (river-right) of the bend in the creek.

Location
Type
Hazard
Difficulty
Class N/A
Mile Marker
0.4 mi
Directions
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Moon Valley Drive to end of gradient (<0.5 mile)
Baird Creek
II+ 0.5 mi
Hazard — Exercise extreme caution in this area.
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
Whitewater data from
American Whitewater