First off...Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!  Renting a cabin on the Sky near Gold Bar for a Thanksgiving get together and wanted to see if anyone was planning to paddle Thursday through Saturday.  

Hi! I am headed to Seattle from Portland for Thanksgiving. Super into kayaking on Thursday or Friday. Whats the sky all about? play boats? Give a shout
Jesse
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I am gonna try to get out there around 1pm tomorrow if anyone is into running a lap or two around said time

Matt
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Who's taking aim on Friday? Free all day during daylight, and would like to turn a Big lap from however high up (above the confluence) or double the Main.

I'm up for Friday, early works, planning to make a day of it.

I'm driving over from Spokane on Friday so I can be there around 1.

Yo- help this brother out!
Sounds like a party qnd Id love to join but I gotta work solid all through that block.

Jshap, to answer ya, the Sky is a MUST RUN classic of PNW whitewater. A Seattle Staple of the highest degree. In my opinion its a toss up between a playboat or creekboat. You should be able to enjoy either. Its also a great run for rafts, I-K's, or whatever floats. Boulder Drop is class IV at all flows unless it is class V (like when its high or if you are commercially guiding). The rest of the run is broad bouldery class III. If the Skykomish doesn't impress you keep adding water in increments of 5,000-10,000cfs and sooner or later it will.

Its dry now, so your looking at low flows, but good quality water none the less. Anything above 1200cfs is straight up quality. Best low water paddling anywhere, really. It runs 365 days a year. 10,000 or more and the tribs feeding it go off and they are all pretty fun. So you should boat it, if only to see why you need to come back up when its stomping high.

Seriously. If you are avid about this whitewater stuff you owe it to yourself to learn a little about the drainage. Tye, Foss, Miller, Rapid, for starters, not to mention other misc. Gnar upstream and Clandestine Goods.

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Sounds like there is a quorum at 1. Where's the rally point? Safeway parking lot on the highway en route? Let me know 9712358940

Jesse

Probably looking to meet up at split rock, there's a pull out on the side of hwy 2, if you're heading east coming from Monroe it'll be about 2 miles past big eddy park & will come up right as the river starts to really come into view from the road, just upstream from a railroad bridge, sorry I don't know the mile marker but it's easy enough to spot just look for cars with boats on top..

what time is everyone thinking tomorrow? im gonna throw out 12


Edited by wolovekg - 28 Nov 2013 at 7:54pm

11:30 or noon is what Greg and I discussed yesterday, so he can get back earlier.

I bet there'll be a few people buzzing around out there.