Yellow Dog

Kayaking the Dog https://youtu.be/4rGVlXZSIMI

Incredible river with very big drops. Some tight lines, but all manageable. Ran Hills Falls, but few have. It has a very small landing zone and you cannot miss or it would be a bad day. This is a must-paddle river in the UP. Don't miss it. I feel it is every good as anything around Lanse', if not better.

May 19, 2006

The USGS gauge read approximately 130cfs. The gauge on the bridge was not found for comparison. I would say the level was on the good side of low, we ran all of the drops with the exception of the first.

May 20, 2006

The USGS gauge read approximately 105cfs. All drops were run, but getting scrappy. I wouldn't recommend paddling below this level. I think it would be possible but things would be very scrappy.

Boris Glick demostrates a good line on Junkyard in his BlissStik. That's why they call him the ScudMuffin!

This is a good level for running the left line on obedience school. The right side can get a bit dicey with the undercut 'eyeball' rock.

We paddled this on 4-25-04, and here's some notes. A gauge was painted on the upstream, river right I-beam at the put in. It read 1.3 feet, which was near but not quite minimum. 1.1 might be too low. Thanks to Jim Paul for adding this, as the I beam with the 3 bolts was nowhere to be found. There was a lot of wood until the first big drop, which had it's approach blocked. We carried past the wood and did a bumpy slide on river left to finish the drop. All other drops were clear and all were run. There was no more major wood until the flatwater runout came, and several logjam portages were needed. This is a great run.

Dave McG

A friendly dog comes to meet us at the take out of the Yellow Dog River.

Running the lower half of Junkyard Dog on a perfect line.

Gullet as found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
Function: noun.
Etymology: Middle English golet, from Middle French goulet, diminutive of goule throat, from Latin gula -- more at GLUTTON.
1 : ESOPHAGUS; broadly : THROAT.
2 : an invagination of the protoplasm in various protozoans (as a paramecium) that sometimes functions in the intake of food.
3 : the space between the tips of adjacent saw teeth.
Boaters Definition: The tenuous gap between the pearly white teeth of the Yellow Dog.
The last Drop on the Yellow Dog. It's a nice ledge into a calm pool; enough to make you wag your tail all the way to the take out.

This drop was run by putting in just above it on the
far river left and sliding down.
This is Dog Leg and shows the rock which you can
potentially broach against. Aim slightly left and
paddle to get there. Wood tends to collect to the
right of the rock.
You will see a log cabin on the left as you approach Junkyard. There is a lot going on here so choose a line and stick on it.

At this level it's pretty tough to have a clean line. You are probably going to hit the rock on river left as you can see just barely covered with water.

Evan runs Hills Falls on the right side.

Tim boofs into the spray.