Island Creek

The level today was 0.85 on the first lap and not much lower on the second lap less than an hour later. This felt like a good medium-low level where the run felt like a creek but was scrapey in only a few places. A sizable rain event came through four days earlier that dropped 1.6' at the Crab Orchard rain gage and got Daddy's creek up to 4500 cfs. Today, there was 0.8' at Crab Orchard and an even 1' at the Wartburg rain gage. The rain stopped around noon and our first lap was around 5:30pm. As we neared the put-in, we picked up some boaters that were hitch-hiking back up to their car at teh put-in. They said that the level was just under a foot on when they put on so I assume it was on its way down when we started our first lap.