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    Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 10:58am
I'd love to see it this low (and I just want to paddle damnit). We did the lower a couple times at about 350-370, but is the upper possible in a hard boat at these levels?

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  Quote BrianP Replybullet Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 11:19am
I'll check with the boss and let you know. Definitely interested in seeing it this dry!
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  Quote robcobb Replybullet Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 1:24pm
Did the upper gorge last weekend.
Was low but fun.
One portage around the nozzle, but the rest was good.

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  Quote ru-tang Replybullet Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 6:56pm
Was this boated with IK or hardboat- I have been wondering the same thing about the gorge at low flow
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  Quote robcobb Replybullet Posted: 04 Oct 2012 at 7:13pm
Boated in hardshell kayaks.



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  Quote BrianP Replybullet Posted: 06 Oct 2012 at 8:23pm
I'm out, wish I could but babies don't watch themselves apparently.
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  Quote BrianP Replybullet Posted: 06 Oct 2012 at 8:25pm
I'm tied up until tuesday/wednesday but I'd be down to check it out if anyone wants.
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  Quote James Replybullet Posted: 07 Oct 2012 at 10:22am
Me n Dave elved the green this summer. I think the flow was around 280cfs. It was cool to see and more like working through a maze most of the time. Certainly was glad I was in an IK. Mostly just floated through trout fishing and sun bathing but if you like the run it is worth it too see low. Neat features and swimmin holes.
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  Quote BrianP Replybullet Posted: 07 Oct 2012 at 6:20pm
How was it today? Any pics? Have to live through the lens until my wife gets off his stretch of nights.
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  Quote BrianP Replybullet Posted: 07 Oct 2012 at 8:23pm
Thanks for the pics! That's just the spark I needed to get in there.
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  Quote dave Replybullet Posted: 07 Oct 2012 at 8:40pm
Wow, I am actually suprised to see that much water in it. When James and I ran it earlier this summer it was lower.
 
I have been riding my dirt bike out to pipeline this summer and swimming there a few times. There are some great swimming holes around pipeline below the drop.
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  Quote BRoss Replybullet Posted: 08 Oct 2012 at 10:16am
Thanks Slick that was a fun day! We both had a great time. Highlights for me were seeing the cool bedrock features below many of the drops, the fall colors, lunch in the warm SUN (!!!), and the spawning salmon. I thought that pipeline was the best rapid - fun little creeky flume.

The run was surprisingly clean at 320 even in a hard boat. A bit disconcerting to see the undercut boulders in the nozzle though!
"That boated a lot better than it looked." "It always does until it doesn't."
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  Quote dave Replybullet Posted: 08 Oct 2012 at 9:36pm
Just thinking a couple of years ago we ran the Uppper Green at around 3k this time of year with sunny warm weather too. It is amazing what a little rain can do...
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