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thursday headworks

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Topic: thursday headworks

Posted By: Reina
Subject: thursday headworks
Date Posted: 05 May 2009 at 8:55pm

Anyone free for a thursday Headworks run? I'm available any time. It will be my first HW run but I'm pretty solid on II+, good at eddies, ferries etc... pretty decent roll. Want to do HW before my friends talk me into lower gorge! Or before I talk them into taking me... :-) Have done the wenatchee under 4000 with no problems and the Macal section on the Futa but not sure what to compare that to here in the states...

Reina

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Posted By: Liz
Date Posted: 06 May 2009 at 5:43am

Hey Reina!

I may be free Thursday afternoon. Haven't done the Headworks before, but I bet we could figure it out, and maybe even recruit someone else for the cause. :)

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Posted By: skim
Date Posted: 06 May 2009 at 10:04am

FYI, the Headworks at 1300 is pretty washed out and the weir has some gnarly holes that resemble the Sky weir. Hardly any eddies at that level and you won't have much time in terms of getting to the takeout. If you miss it, then you'll end up doing the 1st rapid of the upper. I can only imagine what it would be like at 2k. What about the yo yo stretch after the lower gorge? There is also the snoq runs (powerhouse and club stretch) as other possible alternatives.

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boof it for crying out loud

Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 06 May 2009 at 10:08am

Sampson are you talking about the Green Headworks? At 2k it is friendly and easy to run with plenty of eddies and places to take out. The only hard drop is the Railroad drop weir area. It is easily scoutable with big eddie service.

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Nomad

Posted By: 14kayaking2
Date Posted: 06 May 2009 at 10:11am

might be game...depends on how much I can get done around the house.

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"We are only boaters between swims" Matty

Posted By: skim
Date Posted: 06 May 2009 at 11:19am

yah, i did it 3 years ago(can't believe it's been that long and stuck doing class III/easy iv). being the noob at that time, i remember it being quite intimidating and washed out except for the weir. so pretty much u boogy down there really fast like less than 30 min.

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boof it for crying out loud

Posted By: Reina
Date Posted: 06 May 2009 at 3:06pm

Hey LIz! I was told, like Dave said, it's pretty friendly around 2K... I'll ask around some more. I'm free any time tomorrow, you name the time for the meet up. I'll PM you with a # too. Still would love some more experienced boaters to come with us! I'll keep bugging my friends...

Posted By: Reina
Date Posted: 06 May 2009 at 6:55pm

Ok- HW is still going up... maybe the S. Fork of Snoq instead? I'm good doing that one just the two of us if no one else can go out. There's also the cedar that WKC is running tomorrow eve...

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