Play on Ben Howard Wave
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Topic: Play on Ben Howard Wave
Posted By: Ryan
Subject: Play on Ben Howard Wave
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2006 at 10:38pm
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I'm going to go to the ben howard wave around noon. Call me if interested. |
Replies:
Posted By: joshcrossman
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 7:59am
| aarghh... would love to, but work prevents. any chance of hitting it on the weekend? |
Posted By: Ryan
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 10:49am
| I'm free on Saturday and wanted to paddle something close by. Maybe a sky run and session on ben howard? |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 11:07am
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Don't think BHW runs at this low a level need about 2000?
------------- Nomad |
Posted By: Ryan
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 11:09am
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There's video of James on it at 1300. It's 1780 right now. I'm about to leave. Anyone else know? |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 1:03pm
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Yea I think it might have changed a bit in the last flood we had. Let
me know what you find out and we can make the adjustments on the rapid
page.
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Posted By: Ryan
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 5:16pm
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It was nice. Today was my first time out there and it was
definitly in. I had a hard time getting "eddy service" I think with a little more water a sneek around on river left around the rock could work. I got tired of fighting the current and the rock for a right side paddle stroke and would just hop out and put back in. A little annoying. But for each time I washed off the wave there was a strong eddy line to play on and deep enough flatwater to play around between wave sessions. What do you guys usually do when you wash off the back of the wave? |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 5:20pm
Return for another go at it....![]("smileys/smiley36.gif")
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Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 6:57pm
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I paddle up river on the right side (facing up river) and keep your speed up against the rock then blast up and over the eddie line onto the wave. You end up hitting the rock sometimes with your paddle, but the key is to hit the eddie line with some speed and look for the dead water in the line and ride it up as far as possible. ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: joshcrossman
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 7:24pm
| hey ryan, would you be up for a return trip on sunday? |
Posted By: Ryan
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 7:30pm
| no can do. I'm flying to Dallas for work on Sunday. Saturday??? |
Posted By: joshcrossman
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 7:38pm
| managed to work something out with the wife-- saturday is a go. just got a new spud boat and looking forward to getting it dialed in. you want to do pnp on the wave, or a bit of a run as well? |
Posted By: erikSANDSTROM
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 10:00pm
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yo ryan, i may attend. I just got next year's big s and am looking to pay for it
this year. however, the snow will be donkeyballs (sorry, about donkeyballs, i wanted to see if the auto-censor on this site catches it). anyway, thanks for the w.salmon offer last week, and i'll get back to you. ------------- This river don't go to Aintry. You done taken a wrong turn. |
Posted By: Ryan
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2006 at 10:45pm
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LOL donkeyballs I'm thinking a sky run and then hitting ben howard wave. I'll post a trip tomorrow. If the snoqualmie was running I'd so be down to hit the slopes in the morning and paddle in the afternoon. Not sure if there is an easy route from Snoqualmie Pass to the Sky or west of Stevens Pass. |
Posted By: brentb
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2006 at 11:25am
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Ryan -- I was planning to join the group doing a Big Eddy run, meeting tomorrow at 10 at Big Eddy (sounds like some may try to follow-up with a run on the upper section, which I'd be interested in joining, too). Since I know you are close by in Fremont, let me know if you are interested and we could carpool. (Anyone else in Fremont/Eastlake area of Seattle feel free to let me know if you are interested in a carpool as well.)
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Posted By: Ryan
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2006 at 11:34pm
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Brent, Erik and I are leaving fremont around 10 so we won't make the
big eddy run. we're going to the bhw and then boulder run at 3. Ryan - 425 891 8286 |
Posted By: hutchm
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2006 at 10:14am
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Just a heads up on geusstimating the BHW, the sultan is just upstream of it (and downstream of the goldbar gauge) so this flow needs to be factored in also. The wave is deffinitly changed from last year, but early in the season we were having the most trouble with finding it at the right level due to the high flow from the sultan. I would say the lower limit for last year was 1600cfs actual (sultan+goldbar), and the upper limit was around 3300cfs (also sultan+goldbar). Having realy been checking it out this year, but more beta is always good. Morgan |
Posted By: joshcrossman
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2006 at 10:22pm
| james and i went by this morning, and with the sky running at 2150, it looked a little trashy. i'm not sure what the sultan was reading, but the wave wasn't great. |
Posted By: erikSANDSTROM
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2006 at 6:14pm
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The wave was flushed at 2400ish on saturday, but there was still some play.
We left for power lines about 20min after putting in at BH. I'm bringing a surfboard next time it is at 1600 or so. any takers? ------------- This river don't go to Aintry. You done taken a wrong turn. |