First no portage run: Eagle Falls to Split Rock
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Topic: First no portage run: Eagle Falls to Split Rock
Posted By: STLboater
Subject: First no portage run: Eagle Falls to Split Rock
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2012 at 6:53pm
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Just kidding, but here are some photos of Canyon Falls. I've never seen any pics of this before, it is an incredible place. If you frequent the Sky, you need to take the extra trip to visit this place. Make sure not to run it accidentally - you could find yourself in a bad place if the conditions aren't right. So you know, the photos don't show the crux :) Cheers, Gordon http://professorpaddle.com/uploads/bin/2/useruploads/349/6966.jpg">  ../uploads/bin/2/useruploads/349/6966.jpg">  ../uploads/bin/2/useruploads/349/6966.jpg">  ------------- Kayak Academy Whitewater Instructor |
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Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2012 at 10:22am
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Did Rob M just run this recently? It looks pretty cool. ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: Chuck e fresh
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2012 at 3:28pm
 I thought I saw a truck there on Sunday..? Is that when you took these pics. It looks like a great place to visit. ------------- There's no such word as can't!so stop making excuses!!!! |
Posted By: Sam_Graftton
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2012 at 3:51pm
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Dave no ones run this!
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Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2012 at 9:34pm
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Oh, i thought that was Eagle Falls and heard Rob just ran Eagle. I guess i need to go check it Out. ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: huckin harms
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2012 at 8:09am
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Thanks for sharing those pics Gordon! Did u all get some laps on the Spout? lol... sorry couldn't help laughing at this insane idea, esp coming from someone who should know better, but hey we all got our moments of brilliance, and that just wasn't one. :) u know who u r outhere big guy and I just got to give u a little more grief. anyways, those are some great pics... what kind of camera did you use ? ------------- |
Posted By: HINDS
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2012 at 9:59am
| A word of caution on Canyon Falls, it was about 3 grand on the main sky and the takeout on river right was a little tricky. There is a rock wall on the right that would make it almost impossible to portage or get out probably too much higher than this. I cannot be certain that this thing is actually a killer but I would call it class 6. The landowner issues on river left would make for a bad scene if you tried to portage there. So my recommendation for this is never try to run and portage this section much higher than 3 g on the main sky gauge. This could be a fatal mistake if you don't get around this monster, really nasty looking. |
Posted By: water wacko
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2012 at 10:03am
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With similar landowner issues on river right and pretty much the whole river bottom being pot-holed out with lava tubes this drop may never be run intentionally. at least by me ------------- "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: STLboater
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2012 at 10:30am
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We all look at the spout, it was heinous!!! You would slam a rock wall on your way down, hit a log in the eddy, get knocked over by the river wide sweeper log just downstream before a mank pin piton class V rapid. Harms you said it, you guys are in for a "sufferfest" Photo taken with a Nikon D300 ------------- Kayak Academy Whitewater Instructor |
Posted By: STLboater
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2012 at 10:31am
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Nick is right about the levels here, if you screw it up, you will be in a bad place with little way of recovery. Even if the levels are right, if the rock is wet I would not visit Canyon Falls.
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