Whitewater Forum: ELF Green

ELF Green

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Topic: ELF Green

Posted By: BrianP
Subject: ELF Green
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 10:58am

I'd love to see it this low (and I just want to paddle damnit). We did the lower a couple times at about 350-370, but is the upper possible in a hard boat at these levels?

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Posted By: BrianP
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 11:19am

I'll check with the boss and let you know. Definitely interested in seeing it this dry!

Posted By: robcobb
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 1:24pm

Did the upper gorge last weekend.
Was low but fun.
One portage around the nozzle, but the rest was good.

Posted By: ru-tang
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 6:56pm

Was this boated with IK or hardboat- I have been wondering the same thing about the gorge at low flow

Posted By: robcobb
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 7:13pm

Boated in hardshell kayaks.

Posted By: BrianP
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2012 at 8:23pm

I'm out, wish I could but babies don't watch themselves apparently.

Posted By: BrianP
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2012 at 8:25pm

I'm tied up until tuesday/wednesday but I'd be down to check it out if anyone wants.

Posted By: James
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2012 at 10:22am

Me n Dave elved the green this summer. I think the flow was around 280cfs. It was cool to see and more like working through a maze most of the time. Certainly was glad I was in an IK. Mostly just floated through trout fishing and sun bathing but if you like the run it is worth it too see low. Neat features and swimmin holes.

Posted By: BrianP
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2012 at 6:20pm

How was it today? Any pics? Have to live through the lens until my wife gets off his stretch of nights.

Posted By: BrianP
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2012 at 8:23pm

Thanks for the pics! That's just the spark I needed to get in there.

Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2012 at 8:40pm

Wow, I am actually suprised to see that much water in it. When James and I ran it earlier this summer it was lower.

I have been riding my dirt bike out to pipeline this summer and swimming there a few times. There are some great swimming holes around pipeline below the drop.

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Nomad

Posted By: BRoss
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2012 at 10:16am

Thanks Slick that was a fun day! We both had a great time. Highlights for me were seeing the cool bedrock features below many of the drops, the fall colors, lunch in the warm SUN (!!!), and the spawning salmon. I thought that pipeline was the best rapid - fun little creeky flume.

The run was surprisingly clean at 320 even in a hard boat. A bit disconcerting to see the undercut boulders in the nozzle though!

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"That boated a lot better than it looked." "It always does until it doesn't."

Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2012 at 9:36pm

Just thinking a couple of years ago we ran the Uppper Green at around 3k this time of year with sunny warm weather too. It is amazing what a little rain can do...

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Nomad

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