This
fall Mike Harms, Jon Dufay and Myself had the unique opportunity to
head out to the Olympic Penn. during a flash rain event that turned the
Mosh Pit on and resulted in the 2006 Flood that devastated the greater
pacific northwest.
On
Friday after several late night hours on the phone with Mike Hoover, I
decided that I was in. Mike the local expert had given me the thumbs up
on the Mosh Pit and we were looking for flood. So the three of us
packed into chuckie, and headed out to the Oly Pen to meet Hoover and
some friends for a session on the Mosh Pit.
At
about 10am on Sat morning the three of us arrived at the Most Pit to
find a pretty nice looking wave with several boaters on it. Hoover
quickly introduced us to some other local masters and together we
proceeded to shred up the Mosh all day long on Sat.
That Night we got
Chuckie Stuck in the Mud, then decided to head back to the Mosh Pit to
perform some nighttime covert ops. The mission was a success but the
outcome was unexpected. After our mission we then beded down in the
middle of a clear cutting area where they were burning debris piles all
over. It was a scene out of Mad Max. Big piles of smoldering wood in a
huge rainstorm the ground was all black and burnt and in the middle of
the wasteland was chuckie with me and Dufay chillin and mike harms in
his Tent outside (he wanted to - we offered some space inside the
chuckster). Dude that night it rained and thundered so hard it was
actually an experience in and of it self. The next morning we woke up
sober and fresh amidst a freshly washed clearning. It was very
impressive. We rolled our soaked asses back to the mosh pit to cook
breakfast and prepare for some surfing.
After a few bowls of oatmeal we chatted with Mike Hoover and His buddy
who's name I can't remember Dang it. He was a super cool guy though.
THey talked the three of us into heading into forks and rather than
playing at the mosh pit at sub par flows, go run the upper upper sitkum
at a nice healthy flow in playboats. We were all into it right away.
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So we raced up a nice forest road just outside of forks to the run.
After a quick hike off the road we were at a little tiny trickle that
was the head waters of the creek. About 1/4 of a mile into the run was
the first ledge with a horizon line. It was a straight forward combo of
two little subledges that combine a little doowoop...
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After the little
doowoop the river turns and goes over another small little ledge. After
the next little ledge there was a little twist slide.
Later in the run you come to a double drop that has some interesting stories... The rest of this TR will come later, for now I will just end with this picture!
