Sauk it to ya!
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Topic: Sauk it to ya!
Posted By: ThrowYaMittsUp
Subject: Sauk it to ya!
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2014 at 11:31am
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I was great to see all the boaters on the Sauk this weekend! I didn't get a full count, but I know there were 9 hard shell kayaks in jP's group on Sunday plus many, many inflatables. You can't beat the river side brewery right next to the take out either. Everyone(that matters...) in Darrington, including myself, appreciates your support. Next time, camp out, I'd love to party with y'all!  Thanks, Brian Adventure Cascades ------------- "Call on God, but row away from the rocks." ~H.S. Thompson |
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2014 at 10:43am
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Great to see you and your crew, BP!
The Sauk is very enigmatic. I guess I've had too few trips on it spread out among too many years. Consequently my memories of it always seem fuzzy. Its another river with a fairly wide bandwidth of flow ranges. There is also enough smaller rock composing the riverbed that I'm sure some occassional shifting and shuffling occurs, revising the riverbed in what could be a Gnome-like fassion... And that is certainly Sasquatch Territory up Yonder Suiattle/Glacier Peak... Perhaps this is why it seems like a different river each time...? The flows we had provided plenty of push for an 80gal creekboat. My Big Booty stern got sqirreled around more than once, and I even got stuck in a wedge shaped "room of doom" eddy pocket. Had to bust out a combat roll for that one. Plenty of Large Rocks to squeeze some class IV boofs and manuevers out of, and plenty of wide open class III+ lines besides. That was a fun group of 9 we had- one for each of the Nazgul. We had a pretty cohesive dynamic, which always makes boating with people much more fun. Grinch and NZA showed me a few cool lines.. Saw Joe out there: one of Washingron's IK Jedi order, local Lexicon of The Sauk. Good showing of cat boats and assorted "Rubber"... Nice weather, even! ------------- 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 |
Posted By: JoesKayak
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2014 at 10:22am
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Yeah, The Sauk is always good times! Was good to see it getting the love last weekend. It should be a go-to river on any W.Washington boater for the next month or so, the snowpack looks better there than most other drainages so we should still have several good weeks of quality h2o. And hwy 530 is open now (it's one way traffic only at the Oso slide guided by a pilot car, so maybe add 10 minutes to your schedule - not bad at all) so go get some. And yeah, JP good seeing you and the good showing of assorted creekers and playboats out on the water. And little known river fact... the Sauk does not flow into the Skagit river. That is a lie concocted by the liberal media. It does in fact, flow into the Etume River. At which point, the combined streams become the Sauk-Etume River. Get some!  |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2014 at 1:17pm
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Originally posted by JoesKayak That is a lie concocted by the liberal media. The media never lies, and certainly not the liberal media. It must have been a simple misunderstanding. |
Posted By: PowWrangler
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2014 at 1:50pm
| I haven't been on the Sauk in years. Anyone meeting up for a Sunday run? Just need to back in Seattle by around 5pm for Father's Day stuff. |