The Narrows region of the Baraboo Hills

Wouldn’t you just know, the hardest thing to do in a flood is find a place to paddle! It almost feels as if every road out of town is met with a barricade. In fact it’s more than a feeling, it’s true. Yesterday through a series of side roads we were able to actually see the extent of the flooding that was closing of the major highway into town. (in fact this is the road I live on). When you finally come to the barricade it is quite shocking. For miles in all directions there is in fact a new sea. The low hills have become islands & shorelines. It will be a while before the road re-appears and much longer I’m sure before the miles of farm fields will see the sun. One highway is left to carry all the traffic of the region and on it you can expect to get about 10 miles for an hour of drive time.

Gryphon paddling his EPIsea on Mirror Lake, Wisconsin.

We did finally make it over to “Mirror Lake” which is not more than 6 inches above normal. This is because it was from here that the water ran into lake Delton causing the destruction there. Mirror Lake however just let the water move through and survived quite well. As you paddle along you will see debris in overhanging tree branches nearly 5 feet over the current water line. For those short hours even this little lake must have been raging.

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