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Icicle_TV
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   Topic: New Creature Craft video
Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 8:16am |
Hey gang, Icicle TV here from Leavenworth. Realizing full well that the running the Tumwater is a regular occurrence for many members of this board. We submit our video of the Creature Craft guys on one of the Dam down runs they took last week. By my guess, it's running around 9000 CFS the day of filming.  Icicle TV is a grassroots media effort that focuses on local people doing cool stuff. We'd love to hear about your local adventures of any kind. Thanks for watching and we'll see you at the put in. LINK: http://icicle.tv/Blog/SPORTS-OUTOORS/Creature-Craft-runs-the-Tumwater-Canyon.html
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irenen
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 9:31am |
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Shweeet, great video!
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It's all fun and games until someone loses a paddle.
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Blair
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 9:55am |
Good footage indeed. Much better footage than those silly camera phones from up on the freeway (like 1 I have on my channel). 
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huckin harms
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 10:06am |
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They didn't show the Creature Craft footage of one being pinned/broached into the giant stick at the bottom of the wall. These things definitely have limitations and agility is not there strong suit. Nonetheless, they are the only watercraft on that stretch of ww this time of year, cept for a couple hardy 'core' paddlers willing to lay it all out.
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Sam_Graftton
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 10:13am |
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Funny there calling POW V and Exit a VI I think POW is just as nasty if not nastier at that flow.
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Icicle_TV
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 10:27am |
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Busted. The ratings were in question on our end. I just called POW a V, But the 6 foot tall hole sure looked like class VI. You guys are the experts here, I'm just a camera guy.
We just caught one of the dozen or so runs they took last week. During the film scout we spent an hour looking at 1/4 mile. That's no stick, it's a 50 foot 3' diameter log. Darren said they deflated one of the main tubes causing the boat to lift the log up, freeing the boat. Epic, but it worked. The boat was fine.
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NateW
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 11:18am |
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Ran into these guys and they offered to take us out. I don't have the stones for it though. Great footage, I bet some of their gopro footage makes it into an advertisement for gopro.
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huckin harms
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 1:08pm |
Yup, I'd rate every one of the boomers (Wall, Chaos, POW, Exit) classV+ at those high flows. I'd even go so far as to venture that that there whitewater is some of the biggest anywhere around and maybe the biggest stuff next to a road. That's water thats not even at flood stage, but well within its banks.
We rolled by the day that one of these crafts got pinned in the wood below the Wall rapid. The first thought that went through my mind was fatality. Glad to hear they got the rubber out of that pinched spot and everyone was ok. Must've made for a sporty runout with a deflated tube.
Thanks for sharing!
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JayB
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 8:24pm |
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Anyone know the highest flow that the Tumwater's been run at by kayakers?
I seem to recall some footy showing Marco C. running the Tumwater at fairly stout flows in Twitch I, and have heard rumors of a National Geographic special showing Jim Snyder and others running it at high water at some point in the 70s'(?).
I found this info on BoaterTalk but if anyone has more information or links to footy I'd love to see it/them.
"It was Jeff Snyder, with Bob McDougal and maybe Grant Amaral? Jeff
nails it in the Bigfoot. The other two were in Dancers I
believe. There was lots of great high quality slow motion footage of
them going through massive holes and waves"
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Sam_Graftton
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 9:48pm |
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No Idea what the highest run was. Rob and myself ran Exit last year at 10k, I know Marcos run POW at 13k, Rob and Marco also ran The Wall at 13k. Chaos regularly gets run at high flows.
I have some footage from a few weeks ago that I'll try and upload soon.
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TomMarley
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Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 10:19pm |
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Anyone know the story behind a reported helicopter extraction off the White River? Last week or so I heard.
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