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anymore I pretty much just look at the Robe and Sky guages to quickly determine whats happening with the hydrological cycles. They are neighboring drainages and often resemble each other, and they often get the Lion's share of the winter rains, aside from the OP which is a land far, far away.

These graphs obviously are dynamic ever changing, and I haven't had a chance to consult other data in the last 24hrs or more, but Monday and Tuesday look good.

I got stuff to do but am confident I can squeeze some boating in those two days, maybe wednesday as well. If I can swing it, I'm thinking of hitting the Sky on Monday at 25k or so (goes without saying that the upper tribs are on the table too, if the water is there). Then maybe hit Robe once the Gnomes calm down and get sleepy after moving boulders all over (tues or wed).

That's my tentative plan if I can squeeze it in. Weekday chargers: Who's "Down with this Clown?"

Disclaimer: last weather data I absorbed made it look like Tuesday on was gonna be Colder Than Witch's Tit in a Brass Drysuit, and I may get conscripted to work. Not sure at this point, but will know more sunday.

Speaking of the OP, now could be a great time to plan a Matheney Trip-- may not fit into the weekend slot, but keep an eye on that Queets guage

Sam wants the Tye at 8am tomorrow. I might be down for a play run a little later. 10 or 11?

Sounds good.
It happens that I am also "moving" tomorrow- planning to be out of my current "residence" as early as possible.

Since I know that the earlier I rally, the better the options will be, I am hoping I can get up there 8ish. We'll see though. Bad timing, but hey I will still be up there one way or another and there will be good water.

Still open for the Foss or even the Rapid if Top Tye drops out when I get up there, and if they have decent water. Always a possible Sky run, but I'm more likely to want to stick to the tributaries further upstream. Not getting out on them enough. Top Tye would be Ideal though.

Miller, Anyone?

Well JP, You can be sure that if I was in WA I'd be out there. I'll tell you why..we just took our last paddle of the season in MN yesterday, it was about 10 degrees with snow on the ground and cold as f*ck. Spent the day dodging ice dams, ice shelves, and ice sieves. Now I realize how god damn lucky I was to have whitewater year round. All there is to look forward to now is 4 months of ice fishing..yes, ice fishing.

Depression and envy in equal amounts seeing the water you guys have right now.

No takers though, huh?
I admit it'll be a c-c-cold one and flows are dropping out fast.
But hey, its not like itll be 500cfs or nuthin, and there are nifty inventions such as pogies and skull caps...

Well, since you brought it up, MN DOES have it's charms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJiSLUrTwh0

Cool. Yeah, there's some MN diehards who get it done over there for sure.

And, almost as a salute to their snow covered devotion, Fish n I managed to get up on the Top Tye yesterday on a flow I would describe as being on the "Fat Side of Casual". Yeah, I opted not to get Paranoid, but there were sweet boofs to be had for the Initiated.

By far one of the coolest aspects of the day though was the heavily laden snow covered forest. The Old Cascade hwy wasn't plowed, so we parked down at the take out and hiked up that beatifully scenic road through 8" snow or whatever it was. Huge wet flakes coming down...

Mossy Jade is the best description of the creek's coloration. These scenic aspects were so rich with elegance that I felt incredibly thankful to be a PNW boater. Not to mention the push in that creek. Didn't really touch a single rock to speak of, the coverage was good.

I'd been up at the pass on sunday litterally watching Tye Creek spring to life as Dogs and Cats rained heavily upon the base lodge area, collecting in basins of slush that would form our substrate of pleasure downstream the following day...

The run seemed to last 5 min despite a few eddy stops, but I gotta say it was one of the best 5min of whitewater I had this year, just because of the unique winter edition of it!!

yall missed out!!!

Dude-- the hike to the put in was one of the coolest parts of the trip!
Besides, I got all winter to shred Pow. That was, most likely, the last opportunity to get on the Top Tye this year, and the Only time to catch it in those fairy tale conditions. Simply an unrepeatable experience.

So it was 6"+ above tge base of the sapling before we hiked, then when we paddled down to the bridge it was 3-4" oscillation. I'm still gettin to know the guage but it was filled in and definetly had some Push 'n Gush. Beefy but not rowdy. Of course, like I said I opted to lop of any potential for Paranoia :)

Similarly, S.frk Sky guage read 7'+ before and 6.84' after.