Trip Report

Some More on guage and other changes New

Forum: BoaterTalk

Re: Lower Meadow Warning hydraulic New

Re: Hey Bryan about the gauge ShawnMc New

Date: Dec 14 2003, 4:25 GMT

From: jbseay

Hey Shawn, JB here. I talked to Todd Richendollar some about the gauge, and he said he hadn't been out there and checked it, but we all agreed today that the Guage is reading low.

Bryan and I agreed to post this info once or twice more to get the word out to non fayettevillains

-The bulk of the rearanging seems to be cobble sized stuff, which has deepened up some drops and shallowed others.

Some large rocks have moved though.

-The change in Coming Home is big. the eddy level in there today looked the same as it use to at like 400 cfs. Except we figure it was 1400 or 1500 cfs. we were pretty far into the drop before we saw the log, so I think it is important to let people know about both the log and the new seive in the eddy, so that no-one accidentally commits and get screwed.

-The main entrance to Seive City (drop immediately below coming home) has opened up, plus the boof ledge in the drop below Seive City has gotten significantly taller, and today it had a 3-4' high boil downstream of it. weird looking. felt funny to me. numerous other little things have shifted around in boogie rapids, nothing big, but noticeable.

-Todd suggested that Sliding Board hadn't changed but that it was just high, making the hole grabby. Luke was able to drive hard left and skip over it on a tounge coming down that side. I'll have to see it sometime at lower water to know for sure.

Later,

Meadow (Gauley River trib.)

3. Route 19 Bridge to confluence with the Gauley River(Lower Meadow)