Napeequa River
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Printed Date: 19 Apr 2024 at 10:39am
Topic: Napeequa River
Posted By: BRoss
Subject: Napeequa River
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2012 at 3:39pm
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Anyone ever heard anything about this being run? Seems like it would be an epic mission - has to be one of the biggest remaining unrun stretches in the state. 4000 feet climb in 5 miles with your boat, then drop the same down to the river. Canyon looks fairly inescapable with a 1000 foot gradient loss over something like 7 river miles. Here's the best pictures of the canyon i could find:
http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/download.php?id=d7ca322aed3f9a03ab203123fb3d5b1a&p=843626 - Napeequa Canyon http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/download.php?id=f14e3d38810f4fe7108938efa601dfe2&p=843626 - Upstream of the canyon No trail access into the canyon from either end. Google maps shows a lot of whitewater in there... Just idle daydreaming...I'm not hardcore enough to try for this, maybe someone else will and write it up? ------------- "That boated a lot better than it looked." "It always does until it doesn't." |
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Posted By: Dale
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2012 at 4:39pm
| My knees are kinda hurting right now. You guys go on without me. Good luck! |
Posted By: tradguy2
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2012 at 4:50pm
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Jon Almquist told me it had been run before. You might want to see if you can get some info from him.
------------- ... preparing for a river beating! |
Posted By: WA-Boater
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2012 at 5:28pm
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That's funny. I was just looking at a map the other night and noticed this river myself. Never realized there was a river between the Chiwawa and White feeding the Wenatchee.
My guess is it has been run or at least looked at by a boater. Gary Korb would be a good place to start - he is the pioneer of the Lost River - considered to be a pretty remote hard to access run in the area. My thought the other night was it'd be similar to the white, chiwawa and/or little wenatchee. But you never know. Might be an awesome run - still a poor effort to pleasure ratio though. ------------- |
Posted By: jalmquist
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2012 at 9:29pm
| Yep, I've heard that it's been run, at least by one group. Of course I wasn't there to witness it... Think it was Jim Good, Bob Duffner, et al back in the day. Heard they humped it up over one of the passes (Little Giant?). Would not be surprised if the Sprague, Eric, Scott crew ran it as well, but maybe not since at least Sprage & Eric focused on runs within the National Parks. |
Posted By: Sam_Graftton
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2012 at 9:35pm
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http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/download.php?id=8230666179_a9ebd7d7b8p843759
Looks like there might be some wood? Or is that on a different river? |
Posted By: water wacko
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2012 at 10:15pm
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Sprague told me he ran it with Eric and said it was a very pretty run. ------------- "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~Howard Thurman |
Posted By: FLUID
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2012 at 12:01am
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Pretty indeed !! I love hiking my boat through wild flowers around miles of wood choked mank... this pic looks like the miller ?? not to poo poo it.. but lets go !!
http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/download.php?id=8230666179_a9ebd7d7b8p843759 - http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/download.php?id=8230666179_a9ebd7d7b8p843759
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Posted By: FLUID
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2012 at 5:52am
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Check out the dude in the left hand side of this pick... looks like he's playing a killer round of Backcountry Golf...(minor water hazard) We'll have to invite him to the Middle fork Salmon BCGA Invitational !!! http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/download.php?id=8231727886_b78bbf93f4p843759&sid=bf28a94e438fc034cc3edfaa7678046d - http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/download.php?id=8231727886_b78bbf93f4p843759&sid=bf28a94e438fc034cc3edfaa7678046d
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Posted By: James
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2012 at 7:53am
| He is actually peeing in the river using one of those courtesy tubes so the the native wildlife don't see his willy or his stream of urine. It's the latest gadget for no impact hiking. You should see the one for number 2. |
Posted By: BRoss
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2012 at 3:11pm
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Right on, I figured someone must have ran it. Happy that there are still bigtime adventures just virtually in the backyard. ------------- "That boated a lot better than it looked." "It always does until it doesn't." |