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Topic: McCoy Creek Wood
Posted By: Leland
Subject: McCoy Creek Wood
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 6:42am
This is just a public service announcement about the wood condition on McCoy. My buddy Trip and I dropped in there last Tuesday, and were very discouraged to find around 30 log portages, as well as at least as many other spots where he had do dodge, duck, or slide over logs. It looks like a heavy wet snow event this spring brought down a ton of new wood. Between McCoy and Yellowjacket, we were in there for 7+ hours, most of it spend dodging wood.

I would say that until a big winter rain on snow event flood cleans it out, McCoy should be off the list.

Yellowjacket is clean and good to go - all wood visible and easily avoidable.

Both were at perfect levels on Mon/Tues of last week.

Here's a link to pics from my trip out there:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.229992943680751.81622.100000101419073&l=3446f0c8be - Photos from Washington 5/11

Leland


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Posted By: WA-Boater
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 8:44am
Yeah, I would suspect most runs in that area are at risk for bad wood.
A couple of us were down there for the particular snow event in March. We cut wood off FR 23 in attempt to get to UU Cispus take-out. After several hours of moving trees, driving under and around them, with 1-2' of snow, we started hiking about 2 miles from the take-out. We put in at Island Drop on the UU Cispus and portaged a dozen times in that lower half of the run from trees that had fallen that day.
Two feet of snow had fallen overnight followed by rain. The combined weight was dropping trees all over the place.
I think Cispus will be a mess this year.
 
Darren


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Posted By: arnobarno
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 4:44pm
Hey Leland,
Great pix.

Just a quick question re: Yellow Jacket. Couldn't tell if you ran Yellow Jacket from the Bennett put-in down in addition to running it as the continuation from McCoy.

The reason I ask is that last year YellowJacket below McCoy was clean but there was a ton of wood in the first rapid below the Bennett put-in. Just wondering...

Thanks.
arn

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arn9schaeffer@gmail.com (remove 9 for my real email address)

Posted By: Leland
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 6:20pm
went from Bennett put-in down. All good.


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