Tilton

Posted by Nick Newhall 25MAR2006

First off a few things. Tilton is in good shape until you get to Leap of Faith. Actually Leap of Faith is good. It's what is below that is bad!

There's been a landslide on river left where the creek from river right comes in immediately below Leap of Faith. This landslide looks like it has deposited rocks in the river, not an issue, but the tree it brought down with it is going to be there a while and will definitely be more of an issue at higher water as eddie above it become less availble. Portage river right, actually scratch that. Start hiking out.

The old growth log downstream of Leap of Faith in the second small drop, and across the route you want for this drop, is river wide and I'm not sure it's going anywhere even with higher water. We had 900 cfs on the river and I got in the same drop as said log before I saw it. I may have soiled myself at the sight of it. There was maybe a foot of clearance under the right hand side of the log at this flow. Definitely not enough to pass under upright or upside down. At higher flows, if this thing doesn't move out this is just going to get a lot worse. Unfortunately there is no way to slide up to the log and go over, and traversing along above the river isn't an option either. Almquist and I explored that option.

So everyone knows you can extract up the creek as long as you stay to your left as you are looking uphill. Eventually you'll run into a tree farm and then come out somewhere in the middle of the road you drive shuttle on.