South

Whaaatt......ok 12-30-07 this is how you bring in the new year 2400 cfs on the 'Dirty South' what you know about that........ I know all about that. My friend Mark Savell and I started the days festivaties 31 miles upstream at Klondike rd. this is where the gague is located and this is also where we put in and floated a 1/2 mile to Albert Shoals a set of class III bedrock ledges that are not mentioned in this rivers description at higher flows this rapid is dangerous with a big pour over ledge on river right there is some wood in this rapid as well so beware and scout this dogger. My friend Mark made a nice recovery right above the pour over which saved him from a nasty swim. Don't run this one without scouting. We did one run on Albert Shoals then we took out on river left and hiked back to the put-in .Then we headed for Snapping Shoals where things looked way bigger than my previous runs which were at lower flows.We did two runs here, the first run we went over the dam in the middle of the river and made our way river left becarefull on the left side the current is strong and the river is shallow I rolled here and lost some meat off my knuckles. Our next run we went over the dam on river left and worked our way to river right where things tend to get hairy at high flows and this one has a hole I found this out the hard way , just a little swim only 200' in the 'Dirty South' what you know about that.... I know all about that......Special Thanks to Mark Harris for taking the pictures and videos they will be posted soon