You know what I'm talking about.  We need a full trip report, even if you don't have any new pics.  Give me a bone here. 

Inquiring minds want to know!

Woohoo

Here you GO ....


Edited by James - 18 Jun 2007 at 11:27am

Friggin' work!  Work SUCKS!  We should kick all the work makers asses!

The pile up section was nasty... It was truly amazing down below. Total graident lost in that turn had to be around 60 to 75 feet spread out. No one ran it. No one nutted up for the big daddy either. The hole at the top was scary and the undercut back and sides were not too much more inviting.

I was going to write up a trip report but I figure that I will watch a movie instead. Night I'll waste a little time on that in the morning.

James

Lotsa Goods is right!

Nevermind, I see it in the new description: http://www.professorpaddle.com/rivers/riverdetails.asp?riverid=4110

So I am thinking of heading back out here in a month or so to go check it out with more day light and more time less portaging etc..

If you interested keep this Creek on the burner. Shes worth it.

J

Ok the Latest is up and posted. As a trip Report.

here it is .

Thanks for the props Eric, but it is not neccessary.  I just need to keep working on my boating skills so they are good enough to keep up with my ambitions. 

The flow was 850 cfs. I would say this is on the high side still for what you want.

The Big Daddy is a snap of a portage you really just walk right around it. Below the Cross River Boof is another ledge that you might want to portage. It is a tricky little shimmy if you portage it but you can run it as log Boof / Slide but their is a very narrow window for error and if you messed up the entry and ran the meat ... well it could get ugly.

So for flows go 600 cfs to 1000cfs... 1000 would be stompin high and I would not go in there at that level with out a few more runs at 850 under my belt and more knowledge of what the run does at the higher levels. 600 would be the lowest I would go in due to the fact that things could start being too low under that if it does not channel up really well.

Logistics: The Hike can be done in an hour if you bust ass. The run could be done in an hour or so if you knew it but most groups should plan on 4 - 5 hours of boating if they are doing personal First D's without people that have done it before and run into portages.

Is this a new NW Classic? I would like to think so, and not because I was able to be one of the pioneers on this puppy. I would call it a classic because of the number of clean drops, fun moves and continuous nature of the run. It was a blast and even considering the hike everyone in our group admitted that we would be back within the year to learn it better. So that speaks for it self. We had a nasty portage filled day and did not need to do half of them but we all still loved the run and river as a whole.

The water is amazing the gorges are stunning, the drops are clean, the boofs are many so why not say its a classic.

J