Hey Mike:

Won't be able to make it up there today - but I was wondering if you could take a quick look at the water level relative to the "gauge rock' (at the base of the takeout bridge on the river-left side, picture at link below) and post your impression of whether the flow feels high, low, etc.




http://professorpaddle.com/media/photoview.asp?File_Id=6378


Based on a few runs out there myself - I felt like if there was a pretty good correlation between the water level and the character of the run, but I'd like to get some feedback on that to see if that seems reasonable to other folks

Water just touching the rock = low, water midway up the rock = medium. Water to the top of rock = either high side of medium or high. Rock buried = high.



 


Edited by JayB - 17 May 2012 at 11:13am

Hey Jed, I looked at the river page and your recent edits and it seems the link to the new gauge is going to the SF stilly gauge, not the SF Sky.

Jed, did you put in below that mini gorge like last year?

Not this time, we scouted and it was clean but there were only two of us and it was def higher than last year and looked stompy in a few places, plus the river wide tree was looking like more of an issue. The one duckable spot basically set you up to drop into a backed up hole with bad angle and no speed. Just putting in at that tree was good enough for me.

Anybody plan on doing an evening run on the rapid?

Judah is going to drive while Beth films...right?

I always go off the boof cluster in the center of the creek just downstream of the bridge just like Mr. Harms says. If the boof looks juicy wet enough to be fun, I figure its roughly medium. There should be lots of whitewater and very few uncovered rocks if you are shootin for medium. Some waves breaking at chest height.

And, it should be a rapid kind of experience. If you are scraping more than a few places, well, you ain't getting the namesake of the run now are ya?



Edited by jP - 17 May 2012 at 9:30pm