This is the Snake River flowing into the St. Croix River. If you look, it looks like the river is flowing in the wrong direction, up river. When you spend enough time back in the woods, you see stuff, that makes your head shake. Listen to the birds spring songs. And why is half the ice buried under the water? I thought it was supposed to float….. is the wind coming from the south blowing waves on the snake river? that makes it look like it’s going backwards? The ingredients for an ice out. Maybe with this crazy ice thing, going on the St. Croix, a frozen layer of ice just below this point. it is going backwards. Kinda like a cork the spring flow is blocked by the surface ice so it flows backwards up the snake River.Think about that..,…water always takes the path of least resistance, so if there is ice across the river just beyond this point….. would the water back up? I’ve had some experience with these spring break ups that happen every once in a while, phenomenal events. If you have a year of super cool temperatures early, and it forms over a foot thick of ice on the rivers, that just sits there for the whole winter and then the water drops and then you have a super warm day, in the spring, with high water flow from the melt of a lot of snow. you have chunks of ice a foot thick that will just tear the hell out of the bank of the river. And all the vegetation along it. Tree branches way above your head that you can’t even reach when you go down with the canoe shortly afterwards. Striped of the bark. This experience of mine came on the Kickapoo River back with one of my old river buddies.
Just before ice out.
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