Whitewater Forum: Park and huck

Park and huck

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Topic: Park and huck

Posted By: sherstcp
Subject: Park and huck
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2011 at 9:46pm

Aside from FITW, are there any good places in WA to park and huck?

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Posted By: Wiggins
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2011 at 5:30am

Limp Wrist Falls, Austin Creek, Pixie Falls, and Husum Falls all come to mind.

Kyle

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Posted By: Leland
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2011 at 5:46am

Shipherd's Falls on the Wind, some drops on the Top Tye (Box Drop is easy to access), Silver Falls on the Ohanny if you wanna go huge, several of the falls on the N.F. Lewis, Sunset on the EF Lewis.

Posted By: sherstcp
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2011 at 9:14am

Thanks guys...next question...which of those would be of least consequence? Trying to teach a class III paddler how to boof etc

Posted By: sherstcp
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2011 at 9:19am

Oh...and the complete name of the river...I'm still not familiar with this area

Posted By: STLboater
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2011 at 8:45am

Well, FITW is a class IV creek run and the park and huck is class 5.

Limpwrist is a 40' drop, so not a great place to boof....

Why are you looking for a park and huck? I think a trip down the sky would be ideal. Your friend should practice learning how to boof over small rocks and ledges! Also, the sky is completely roadside.

Search for the Skykomish River

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Posted By: sherstcp
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2011 at 8:58am

The Sky is our home river. I'm looking for someplace other than boulder drop like Valley Falls in WV to break him in to falls that are low consequence.

Posted By: Blair
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2011 at 5:29pm

Wow, what a good friend goin thru all this trouble to help boost his boating skills. How often does he/she boat? I've got a few friends into boating but they stall after buying a boat and gear. Things like watching stoopid soccer games (Sounders) on Saturday's keep them from ever hitting the rivers after my numerous invites to run easy runs. Where is their drive to paddle paddle paddle all the time and wanting to progress to the good stuff like I have? It blows my mind!!!

I started basically on my own, conned James into thinking I'm a legit guy so he would grant me a PP account (easiest step), made all these paddlers think I was their friend (suckers), all to work my way up and build my skills in whitewater paddling. Bwahahahaaaa!

Anyways, point of the story, well, my stories don't ever have points. Anyways, I heard Sunset Falls on East Fork of the Lewis is a good drop to boof and do laps on. Can't remember if it's park n huck cuz I haven't ran that run yet. Samson n sons never invite me every time they head down there! I'm still working on working him over though...

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Posted By: sherstcp
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2011 at 5:34pm

Perfect, thanks. He's one of those guys like me that "caught the bug" and now can't stop. We'll check out sunset. Thanks for the info

Posted By: STLboater
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2011 at 8:24pm

I second Blairs recommendation. Sunset is probably the best park and huck waterfall around that I can think of for your friend!

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Posted By: Blair
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2011 at 9:53pm

Originally posted by STLboater

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