River wide tree just before entrance to pipeline rapid

Boof that thing!

Love the use of germane.. :) I figure the run is one people might take first time people on... etc. So, it's good to be aware of hazards.. also, left of island was pretty scrappy.
Anyway, It's better safe than sorry. I'd much rather get a couple of jeers for being over cautious than feel bad about omitting info that might have helped some one. That's my two cents.

looked at it yesterday.  lot's of branches sticking up, thought there is a spot that you could boof over.  Other side of the island isn't bad, it was runnable at around 700-800.

If i were to take new boaters down it, I would go around on the other side of the island.

Not that I blame any participants on this thread for this tragicly idiotic oversite by the paddling community as a whole. I mean, if having two rapids with the same name on the same dammed river doesn't create confusion well I don't know what does.

Seriously, its bad enough that Washington boaters have a woefully inadequate imagination when it comes to naming rapids. Its bad enough that we recycle the same ten names over and over
"Let's Make A Deal"
"The Flume"
"Double Drop"
Tryin to call any rapid with a row of rocks in it The Picket Fence n sh*t...

But this is way worse because I thought, and would have continued to think Jon was refering to the Upper Gorge rapid, had Thad not pointed it out.

Haha!! No, Slick--

We need an emoticon reading:

THIS THREAD IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT TEXT, or um...
Some detail beyond a picture and a blurb saying its on a river that aparently has two rapids with the same name.

I mean, stop and consider WHY we name rapids.
Pillow Rock- named because of an identifiable, obvious landmark
BOB's Falls- named because Bob got trashed there. A warning so hopefully it won't happen to you.
Rodeo Hole- the go-to play spot
Sweet's Falls- John Sweet ran it first (I knew him as a kid)
Meatlocker- well, this was named after I was there and took the sneak line around it. Not sure why it got named this, but it does a good job of inspiring me NOT to run it.

The point is, names of rapids serve a purpose. When and where possible they should quickly illuminate and provide beta about themselves encapsulated in their namesake.

Hot Pocket. A great name to a feature in Lunch Hole rapid (in itself a well named rapid for multiple reasons). And Hot Pocket was tacked on much later, but its relevence is twice served: not only does it cleverly describe a play feature, it fits the theme of the rapid it resides in. The namer of this feature deserves a gold star for employing his imagination. Well named rapids and features are more easily remembered because of their cleverness. Like a band name, a brand name, ect.

Now, its been a long time since I ran headworks. Maybe the name of the rapid in question makes sense on the face of it, but obviously a whole group of paddlers are guilty of some oversite here by choosing a name already being used downstream, assuming the Uppe Gorge rapid was named first (I don't know for sure this is the case, but it is almost certain and most likely).


Edited by jP - 08 Nov 2012 at 3:26pm

This isn't really a rapid.  It's just a messy eddy that now has a tree coming across the top of it...all the way across the river.  It does have the pipeline running over it on a bridge, however and is located upstream of the powder room.

I know, I think I been guilty of taking things off topic a bit lately.

Whether we know every name every boater comes up with isn't important. Never Heard of the Powder Room, either, but go to the Rivers Page for Headworks and it IS listed. That brought a smile of satisfaction to me when I just went n checked.

Rest assured: if we need to know the name, we've probably heard of it. Boulder Drop, The Wall (a.k.a. Quarter Mile), Lava Dam Falls, ect.

No doubt.. but I can dig being behind a keyboard since I got my double day on Clearwater this weekend!!! Mmm

Dude! I ran 15 mi. Creek!! (Flows into the Columbia near The Dalles) A novelty run for sure, but just one of thode Bennie Book Classics I had to check out. Ran it w/ Tom, Kira, and Hans two winters ago.

It has a few interesting drops in it fo sure.

And some wierd farmer/rancher stuff in the river, some barbed wire, and a stinky efluent w/ mysterious foam, but hey...



Edited by jP - 08 Nov 2012 at 6:11pm

It is more than possible that I just messed up the description due to ignorence...and alcohol. This horse is more than dead but I hope everyone now knows there is a tree across the river on Headworks. It's up to you to boof or portage.How cool is it to make a post and get jP to comment?

what is the current flow on this section, hasn't been updated in awhile anyone know?

This is the gauge I use for the Green... http://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?12106700 and this is the forecast gauge that will give you an idea of what they may or may not release whenever... http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/river/station/flowplot/flowplot.cgi?id=HHDW1