Briggs Woods Spillway/Ditch 166

near Webster City (0.3 mile)

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March 8, 2005

Trip Report

ReporterDavid Weber

Groovy, nice to see all the added information for Iowa. Just a few pieces of info about ditch 166 / Briggs Woods -- The photo on the main page there was taken by me, of Jayd Janovich around 1996 or 97 and is actually the third ledge. Since the last time I saw the ledge around 2003, there has been considerable erosion lowering the drop height. I had to laugh when I saw the photo of the 'unintentional mystery move' because that was a feature back then too. In fact, we lost one of the Ioaw State University Kayak Club's best paddles there on that trip for exactly that reason. And I've spent a fair amount of time pinned to the bottom of that rapid myself.

Anyway, keep the faith. Nice to see there's someone still trying to kayak Iowa.