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Playspot WI Class II+

Typewriter ("TW")

American Whitewater 43.0600, -87.8940

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Gauge Conditions

Milwaukee River at Milwaukee, WI Upstream Primary

Runnable: 120.0 – 9,999.0 CFS

Intermediate flow. Perhaps ideal flows for beginner-to-intermediate boaters (full run or PnP at EPL, UPk, TD or North Ave). (See description for details.)

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Photo

Photo courtesy of American Whitewater

Description

Time of year matters! Waves are 'broken' in summer (not forming at flows they'd be great late-fall and most of spring)! Descriptions of features (and water levels they're 'in') are for non-summer situation!

From 600 to 1600 cfs, whitewater playboaters should get surfs, flatspins, and slightly elevated spins. (There's never enough retentiveness or depth for full-vertical or aerial maneuvers.) A shoreline 'escalator eddy' river-right allows easy repeat play.

High water in 2008 changed this feature. Previously a diagonal wave (looking like it would 'typewriter' you to river-left) no longer exists. Now (when it is 'in'), it is a narrower wave or breaking wave/hole, center-river.

The names of this feature and those which follow pay homage to Christopher Latham Sholes who is credited with (improvements on efforts of others and a number of patents which led to) the first commercially viable typewriter.