4/26/13 – Today’s Sawbill Lake ice report: 13″ of snow/slush/water on top of 26″ of ice. Today’s temps will peak in the 50s for the first time since October 24th.
One of our favorite customers, Dale Benham, leads a group of students from Nebraska Wesleyan University on a canoe trip through Sawbill every year. Last year, one of the co-leaders was psychology professor Frank Ferraro, who conducted some interesting research on the trip about the effect of wilderness on the frontal lobe of the brain. Here is a blog entry with a short summary of the research. This link leads to a longer, more detailed article titled “A River Thinks Through It” in the NWU alumni magazine with fun pictures and references that will be familiar to Sawbill canoeists. – Bill