September 16, 2021
Thursday
Willow River campsite
RM 1078.5
263 miles completed
We paddled 8 miles to Willow River.
Our goal was, and is, to get to Aiken on Friday. That’s 30 miles from Palisades. There are two campsites between Palisades an Aiken. We stopped at the first one because there was likely to be bad weather and we didn’t want it to catch us on the water. That left us with 22 miles to go for Friday.
The weather in the morning was warm and windy. We started the day with a big breakfast at Gabby’s. We started paddling at 9:10. The wind was in our face most of the time. We encountered several rapids.
We saw some otters.
The bad weather came right in the middle of dinner. I took my noodles and coffee and got in my tent. It was a pretty hard rain, with high wind, and marble size hail. Terry’s tent is big enough that he was able to open the entrance and get a video of the hail.
After the storm passed we got out of our tents and enjoyed a campfire before going to bed.
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