to MF NooksackClass V
1.9 Miles
Avg Gradient 360 fpm
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Description: There are rapids like Slide for Life where you fly off a clean seven foot boof ledge, then paddle for all you're worth to get up on a rock and slide out and down about eight feet to avoid a sticky hole. Then you stay on the gas to bust through another hundred feet of holes and ledges. There is also Pinball; one of the smaller in between rapids that you wouldn't think much of until at high water you find yourself being slapped around like pinball. These are just two rapids out of thirty that would get descriptions like this. One hazard to mention is Rocky Road, the last rapid on the run. This is the trashy non descript rapid that can be seen from the take-out bridge. It has a nasty unrunnable sieve at the top that is the only mandatory portage on the run. Below the sieve, the rapid remains steep, trashy, and technical. It's probably walked more than it's run, and everyone who has run more than once has got a carnage story. Lat/Long approximate. StreamTeam Status: Verified
Last Updated: 2009-04-28 01:52:18
Stream Team Editor Chris Tretwold bellingham, wa | ||||||||||||||||
AW's motion for dismissal of the hydroelectric project proposed for the Clearwater in the Nooksack River drainage.