Fog Bowl 2010
Published December 28, 2009 | 
Free as a bird,
it’s the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.
– beatles
It’s almost New Year’s Day again. That means it’s time for the annual Fog Bowl at Lake Columbia in Portage, Wisconsin. The fog bowl is the day when ice locked kayakers around Wisconsin finally crack and decide to take any open water they can get. This is it. Lake Columbia is actually a large cooling pond for the big Columbia coal fired power plant that serves much of the area. The horseshoe shaped pond is about a mile long and about half as wide. Water exits the plant on one side at nearly 90f and cools as it flows around the “U” to the intake on the other side. Continue reading
dark skies, march wind
Published March 5, 2009 | 
I had hoped for sun but that hope faded quickly as thick dark clouds continued to pour over the horizon. What’s more the wind began to howl out of the south kicking up the straight north south channel of Lake Columbia filling it with pushy waves and cats paws. I ran with the waves up to the power plant and tucked in behind to see if the outflow offered anything to play in. . Of course compared to what the power station in Sdot Yam has to offer, this little puppy is pretty disappointing. The best you can do is sit on the eddy line and spin. Continue reading
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lake columbia, portage, wisconsin
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