This was built back in the 1930s.
Here’s a great example of the capabilities of an iPhone 13. This is the wide angel view, the next photo is zoomed in from the same spot.
Spring break up of ice on the rivers can be a phenomenal event. Look at the photograph in the upper right hand corner the branches are stripped of bark…. look at the ice way high on the bank….. it all happened one afternoon. If you have a year of super cool temperatures early, and the water is high you can form 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 thick 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.
