Whitewater Forum: Any East Siders up for the Palouse?

Any East Siders up for the Palouse?

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Topic: Any East Siders up for the Palouse?

Posted By: oopsiflipped
Subject: Any East Siders up for the Palouse?
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2008 at 11:42am

I can't ever seem to convince anyone to check out the run above Palouse falls. I could go either day this weekend. Supposed to have one decent falls and a bid slide in addiotn to some II-III stuff in what looks to be a unique basaly canyon.

Gabe

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Posted By: Yotes
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2008 at 11:52am

I can't make it this weekend, but if you want to give it a shot next weekend I could probably do it. It's definately a run to do more for the scenery than for the whitewater, but the falls are pretty sweet. Long shuttle and a lot of flatwater in there, though.

Posted By: H2Ohta
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2008 at 1:01pm

Give me a holler if you decide not to go and want to run Tumwater. With gas prices as high as they are, I am staying close to home.

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H2Ohta

Posted By: oopsiflipped
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2008 at 9:00am

Tummy is a good 4.5 hrs from here....I'd be up for next weekend, also Yotes. Not expecting great WW, but have wanted to see that canyon for a few years now.

Posted By: top pin
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2008 at 8:54pm

I could possibly be in for the 22nd, depends if potlatch comes in or not by then.

WHeres your shredder?

Posted By: Tobin
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2008 at 11:25pm

Gabe,

We are about due for our 2nd annual Tummy run. Whens a good weekend? We got a few more rapids to get under the raft this year.

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Sure?

Posted By: oopsiflipped
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2008 at 7:12am

'My' Shredder is probably still with the guy I sold it to in Aspen or Vail or wherever it was....

But as I re-assured a friend who put up with me taking the Shredder down Lolo Creek last year: "Don't worry, it still takes a special kind of retard to c1!"

I sold the Puma, too, but I happen to know where I could borrow a nice 13' Otter that has even been on that stretch before. I'd definitely be up for a trip over there sometime before there is too much good water here to leave.

Posted By: H2Ohta
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2008 at 7:44am

Use the plain gauge this time of the year. The peshastin gauge is okay to use in the summer, but this time of year the Icicle drainage will begin to melt sooner than the upper drainages that feed the Tumwater. That means that Icicle becomes runnable before most people think though.

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H2Ohta

Posted By: oukr9965
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2008 at 4:49pm

Gabe, there are two good waterfalls on that run. The first one we took the center falls as the river has a choice of three waterfalls. We guessed it was somewhere around 20'. The second falls you can either treat it as a slide, far river left, or a good 18' fall with an interesting lead in depending on levels.

If I remember right there are a few fun little rapids here and there, but the majority of the run is flat water. I'd be up for going again sometime.

Posted By: oopsiflipped
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2008 at 6:40pm

I think it might snow on Sunday....who wants to go on a scenic float trip with a couple of drops on it?

Posted By: oukr9965
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 9:48am

I can't make it this weekend. My wife unexpectedly registered me for a Guitar Hero contest on Saturday in correlation with the Irish Games...which will probably be a late night on its own. I'm probably going to get shown up by some 8 year old kid. On the plus side, after all is said and done atleast I can have beer or two.

Posted By: Yotes
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 9:49am

I can do sunday, pick a time to meet at the takeout? (early is good, since it's a long run and a long shuttle, although it'll probalby go faster than the other time I did it, given the water level)

Posted By: oopsiflipped
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2008 at 5:40pm

Might be able to get Blake to shuttle monkey for us. Coming from Tri-Cities do you go past the takeout road before you get to Hooper? Maybe meet at 10? Bennet list 3k as the upper end. It'll be intersting to see if it is higher. As long as I make the takeout.....

Ellis seems to think the Potlatch Canyon will be a go Saturday.....I think it will still be frozen as he reported the ice at Little Boulder in the 4" range this weekend.

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