Anyone ever thought of paddling this?

[RTR]

Because I wonder if anyone has...


Just another piece of Idaho, where you'd never expect to find it...


One more hint... Malad Gorge SP...


Devil's Washbowl... Anyone know of anything?

[donutlynx]

Been run by at least one person. Charlie Beavers. Featured in Buck Fever, if I remember correctly. I'd check that carnage sequence out before seriously considering running it.

Last time I checked it out in person, it looked b-i-g.

[dentedvw]

*never mind, thought I found the clip.

[donutlynx]

The lead-in rapids look fine. It is the big drop that has the damage factor associated with it. Major piton halfway through the freefall. Double broken ankle territory. Rad place, though. You'd never know it was there just driving over it on the interstate.

[RTR]

Rad place, though. You'd never know it was there just driving over it on the interstate.

Oh, absolutely not... that's the irony of its radness is that it's so right-under-people's-noses...

The lead-in rapids look fine.

True, the lead-in rapids look "fine," but they're still dropping--I don't know--say, 300 feet less than half of a mile. If you do the little paved walk "hike," and see the overlook to the west of the bridge, there's a black and white photo of the gorge that looks like it's either in flood stage, or big spring runoff... it looks BURLY! At normal flows, banging on rocks would be the concern, at higher flows, getting absolutely C-H-U-N-D-E-R-E-D would be the primary concern.

It is the big drop that has the damage factor associated with it. Major piton halfway through the freefall. Double broken ankle territory.

Maybe this could be avoided with a little more flow, and a lot of rocker on the hull of the boat? How tall is that last drop? 75 feet?

[RTR]

*never mind, thought I found the clip.

I'd LOVE to see footage of a descent... thanks for looking. Anyone have any video links?

[RootSkier]

piton to front loop. that shit was ILL.

[donutlynx]

piton to front loop. that shit was ILL.

Yeah it wuz.

RTR - I don't know if what RootSkier put so eloquently can be avoided with a little more flow and more rocker. It was run by Charlie in a Stubby. Realistically, I don't think bow rocker had anything to do with the piton to front loop. However, with more flow it might get you out past the junk that caused the piton. Double however, not sure how the hole at the bottom looks with any more flow. I think the drop is around 65-75', yep, depending on the level of the pool at the bottom.

I have copy of it being run on VHS. PM me your addy if you are interested in it.

[RootSkier]

7:48.

[RTR]

^Oh my...

[Conundrum]

Yep, and Beavers gets steeze points for the cigarette on the scout. I remember that scene. I've looked at it a bunch but never nutted up. Especially after seeing the movie. I bet Leeds and Micah have some info on it. They've spent a lot time around Hagerman in the last couple years.

[donutlynx]

Yep, that's the footy. Nice find Root.

I think it can go without incident...

[BigDaddyLionfish]

Whats the river/rapid at 2:30 where everyone keeps getting pinned?

[donutlynx]

Whats the river/rapid at 2:30 where everyone keeps getting pinned?

Go Left on the Green River Narrows. North Cackalacky.

[SuperChief]

Damn....I feel worked just watchin the first 8 minutes, I was wondering where the sieve was the dude yelled "Just swim through!".

[moose pit]

Damn....I feel worked just watchin the first 8 minutes".

^
Me too.

[RTR]

Bump for anyone interested in seeing pics at higher water (compliments of kayakidaho)...


I like the highway construction barrel in this one...


So, maybe not as much piton potential at high water, but certainly more chunder potential...

[jm2e]

Go Left on the Green River Narrows. North Cackalacky.

Originally known as Go Left and Die. See why?
Used to have a log in it too.
Going right involved a boof onto about 5 CFS down a rock slide to the pool below.

[backcountry1pr]

^Oh my...

and he did it in a stubby... HA

but rad

[BigDaddyLionfish]

Originally known as Go Left and Die. See why?
Used to have a log in it too.
Going right involved a boof onto about 5 CFS down a rock slide to the pool below.

Sorry for the stupid question, but why is going left any worse then going right? They look like about the same line

[skibuminwyo]

I have never seen anyone in a boat actually go right. All the force goes left from the river. I take that back. LVM had a video of a dude in a dancer going through the right, upside down, getting thoroughly worked.

[RootSkier]

I am pretty sure that whole thing is the 'go left' part. They don't show the right at all.

[jm2e]

Root's got it right. What you see in the video is the 'Left' line. The Don't Go Left part pretty much meant most of the rapid back in the day. There's a slot up above that you can't see in the video. From there, everyone used to head hard right, up on to a barely wet slide that you would monkey push with your knuckles down into the pool below. It was pretty lame, but with the log in the main drop there were a couple of really sketchy swims back in the 90s. Now people just call it Go Left since you probably won't die and you do take the left slot. This was the last drop to be run on the green and it took a looooong time considering the rest had been done years earlier. Like so much in the rich history of boating, those things that looked like certain death to the previous generation have shown to be quite a bit more tame now that myriad folks have blundered into them. Hence the demise of the once common term 'keeper hole'.

[Flaskman]

That's fricken gnarly...so many old boats, so many great rolls that just don't get you out of trouble.

Good find...

[RTR]

Just as an update, Seth Stoehner of Boise fired this line up and ran it perfectly clean, just a couple weeks ago, or so.

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