I am going to try to rally some of the local Wenatchee folks. Hoping to get started early ~8am because unfortunately I have to be at a work meeting at 3pm - and the forecasted peak early Thursday morning. Plan will probably be to meet at the Cashmere takeout at 8am. Come on out.

play time!

I'm up for multiple laps Thursday and Friday. Possibly a long boat run from Leavenworth to Cashmere just for kicks if anyones in...

Longboat run??!!

Maybe there's hope for you yet, Colonel Sherman T. Potter!!

I'd come join you myself, but I think Robe will be running and since the graph looks like its going through the Roof (again), I better get out there again and see where the new Gnomes are stationed.

Horse Hockey!

"Jobs"
Lame

Ha! i have a job!
And its LAME!

WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME when I have a job during the "2nd great depression" and I don't appreciate it?

I'll now tell you:
Even if my employer wanted to adequately compensate me (despite giving him the benefit of the doubt, I'm pretty sure he doesn't), he couldn't even if he wanted to. It costs way more to live in this world than he or many other employers can afford to pay their workers.

Of course, there is also a lot of waste all around. But I too must own my portion of it. I try to. When I care. The problem is, increasingly I don't.

fu*k it. fu*k all of it. I'm boating Robe this weekend. Yes it will be " Brrr", but I'm gonna invest my personal "Brrr" in the best Washington has to offer (NO CONTEST NOW THAT THE TRUSS AND LW ARE FUBAR FULL OF WOOD, so all yall Portland boaters best be comin up HERE, if ya know what's good for ya): ROBE.

BUT, since some Robe Gnomes apparently hopped a train over Stevens to influence WASHINGTON'S SECOND MOST CHANGEABLE WHITEWATER RUN just for kicks, create some classic Robe mischief (they were seen wearing "muppet" disguises on Amtrak), and get back to Granite Falls just in time to move some of the "furniture" around in Robe Canyon on a subtle level just to see how many "Robe Regulars" are paying attention (I am) after this latest "Vlad The Impaler" spike...

Y'nz oughtta be answering the rally call to go run the 'Snatch Chi.
Or, you better be ski'n. Otherwise, ain't NO excuses!!!!!!


Edited by jP - 21 Feb 2012 at 7:21pm

Yup. I too am but a weekend warrior :(

I will have to settle for a TR from the Wenatchee crew: do report back to us on this thread, and do update the River Page for Drunkards!

Just may as well throw it out there, though: I'd actually consider blowing off Robe this weekend if PPeeps were gonna carpool over to the Wenatchee saturday n sunday. I know it will be calming down after it spikes, maybe 2000-4000 according to the current graph snapshot, but I'd consider it.

Probably just go on auto pilot back out to Granite Falls (props to my man, the Chainsaw Kid for firing up Granite Falls proper this week, so the story goes). But if there was interest in a Leavenworth rally this weekend, I could be down...

Edited by jP - 21 Feb 2012 at 10:30pm

Weather Channel App forecast for Thursday is nothin but sunshine. I just hope this river really does spike.

The spike is definitely happening, I think it's just a bit later than the NOAA forecast. Stevens Pass got a lot of water yesterday, it just takes a while to make it to the Wenatchee. How much of a bump it gets in total is a bit hard to tell. I think we got a little less water than was forecast, so the spike may not be as high as forecast.

You should the red beard off Blair.

Hmm - forecast on NOAA just got hugely revised. Probably going to pass on paddling unless they got it terribly wrong. Think I'd rather go skiing in the morning.

It wasn't nearly as warm and we didn't get as much water as was forecast - oh well. Mission should be good skiing in the morning.

Yeah, surely Trinity is gone. I thought that main boulder looked huge in Jean Luc's snapshot, but its hard to say exactly with low flows. Thanks for the account, Andy.

And we won't know till we get on the flow. But don't underestimate the possibilty of a sweet wave forming off the corner of that thing, with eddy service like you said.

Can't wait to discover the new Drunkards, but Trinity will be missed. Glad I got on it while it was around. I'm more curious about Drunkard's Wave (Hawaii 5-O): That was the Green machine for the Diablo scene. Super fun to come in from the center of the river on a right-to-left charge and hook the crest: slide into that trough stuck to that thing like glue...
Dodgin Rafts... Trinity was even better since it was a bouncy ride. I'm gonna miss rafts hitting my stern and smacking me back into the trough, and cutting beneath the self bailing floors of rafts after they stalled on the crest...

May be spending more time on Ici this year