The Cedar River flow was around 25,000 cfs. Snag Creek was out of its banks and up to the main gate in Black Hawk Park - which was closed.

As we were unloading the boats the Park Ranger came down and doing his job tried to talk us out of putting in...at least here. In the mid 80's a brother & sister were swept off the road. The brother managed to push his sister into the trees. She survived, he drowned. The family donated money to put up a chain link fence at the park entrance to prevent others from being hurt. (I know the story well as I was one of the divers searching for the boy). We would have put in elsewhere had he not changed his mind. He had a job to do and we would have honored his request. We paddled from the park to where it exits below the dam in Cedar Falls. We took a couple side trips over normally private land and into Big Woods Lake.