September 12, 2004
| Reporter | Brad Roberts |
I don't think they have changed fo the best. (long) New
Forum: BoaterTalk
Re: Wilson was at +3 at 2pm. Felt more like +6. JAMESE New
Date: Sep 13 2004, 0:23 GMT
From: JAMESE
It will be interesting to see what the changes will look like at low water. The water was so high this weekend that everything was fine but but I don't know what the rapids will be like at -3. There are changes all over the creek but not all effect the rapids. Most of the trees that line the banks are gone. The island at the standard take out is gone with no evideance it ever existed. Rocks are scattered all over but as far as I can remember here is a list of the changes that will affect the rapids.
1. The rapid following the pool below Boatbuster is a drop I always called Uturn. The river flows down a channel then turns hard right around a rock. At higher flows you can run down a left hand channel but at lower flows you wanted to eddy agains the left hand wall and then follow the river down the right channel forming the Uturn. Well a large boulder is now blocking the river right channel preventing the Uturn.
2. At the start of the boogie water in the rapids above Razorback there was a large boulder that formed a pourover that was placed there by a flood about a year ago. It is now gone. There are several changes in those boogie water rapids but there is nothing real significant.
3. The left side of the rapid below Triple Drop has also changed but I didn't run that side. Just scout it before running.
4. Huntley's Retreat, The rapid just below Razorback, is completely different. The boof rock a the top of the rapid is gone and a class 2 boulder garden is now there. Just below the boof used be a small slide into a hole that was good for 360's and side surfing. Now it is a rocky 6 foot ledge into a hole. At high water you could boof it left or run it straight left of center. It looks like it may be real boney at low water. The lower part of the rapid still looks the same.
5. After the normal take out there is a slide that used to have a nice surf wave at the bottom, now the wave is a big hole. In the runnout of this rapid there is a rock the size of a Mac truck that wasn't their before. It doesn't effect the rapid but it is amazing that a boulder that big was moved and placed there.
These are all the significant changes that I can remember but there may be more I didn't see and more may become exposed as the water drops. None of the changes I saw posed any significant hazards but after a flood like we just had the creekbed has to be real unstable so be careful.