Whitewater Forum: Box Canyon Ashlu

Box Canyon Ashlu

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Topic: Box Canyon Ashlu

Posted By: McCain
Subject: Box Canyon Ashlu
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2012 at 12:05pm

Fun times rafting in BC! I guess the 50/50 ratio applies to rafts also!

https://vimeo.com/51403894

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Posted By: chipmaney
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2012 at 10:22pm

dan you never cease to amaze me. nice work man!

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sitting all alone on a mountain by a river that has no end

Posted By: Kiran
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2012 at 4:43pm

Fine Fine video! Thanks for sharing. I have added it to my list of memorable WW videos :-)

On this topic, I was at the Ashlu last weekend (Sunday, October 14th) just after it had started to rain.

The river was at Flood Stage and 50/50 was more like 100/0 by even the crazies.

The road, or rather 4x4 trail to the the play run putin was "interesting" and had landslides "washing" out the trail in multiple places. Never quite made it all the way to the putin. not quite certain my Mountaineer would have made it

Was quite a sight to see this river at flood stage

As I exited the Squamish river valley, I noticed that the forest service was blocking traffic from entering due to the Squamish flooding out the road. Apparently a couple of fishermen were also struck on the wrong side of the river and a rescue was underway

Broke up the drive back from Whistler!

Posted By: stefano
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2012 at 8:39pm

Originally posted by Kiran

The road, or rather 4x4 trail to the the play run putin was "interesting" and had landslides "washing" out the trail in multiple places.

You might be one of the people to last drive up there. The river left Ashlu road was decomissioned this week (culverts and bridges removed, cross ditches dug). The road is now blocked with large boulder and logs where it changes from the nice road to the dam to the old logging road - no more vehicle access.

If you want to run the Tatlow, play run or upper Ashlu it's gonna require some serious sweat from now on.

Posted By: fiddleyak
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2012 at 3:45pm

Wow, that's pretty horrible news about the Ashlu road. RIP, Tatlow, you'll always be one of my favorites.

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