upper Ici current observations
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Topic: upper Ici current observations
Posted By: jP
Subject: upper Ici current observations
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2011 at 10:59pm
So I got up to Upper Ici yesterday (6/17) to find a roadblock just upstream of the turn off to Bridge Creek.
Riding my bike around it and up the road brought me past another roadblock before reaching Log Limbo. This rapid still lives up to its name and had a lot of water pumping through it. The right side has a limbo that would be more manageable with lower water.
Continuing up the road I came to a backhoe and an earthen baracde that fenced in a sizable little stream. (Apparently the new mud slide after they cleared the old one.)
Following this little stream through recent mud flow debris led me to Ici's river left bank just below the big rapid known as "Roadside Attraction". Right where the mudslide dumps into the river there is enough freshly arrived detritus that the river left side is essentially filled in. This mudslide debris now crowds the river into a straight narrow channel with two large holes. Yeah its running higher than most prefer for Upper Ici, but I used to run it this high, probably will again. This "mud flow" rapid looks a bit stouter now that the water is so focused into those two consecutive holes.
Anyway the road closure is a bummer but I doubt it will stop me from hiking in the short distance to RV when the water comes down those holes will change. Otherwise, sh*t - just move a fence or two, drive in and drop boats right at the Mudflow Rapid, put in below the holes and run on down to Gray Bridge or further...
Ice Ice, Baby
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2011 at 11:37pm
So a couple folks got confused by my description, which I admit was poorly described:
Roadside attraction is fine. Imagine yourself in your boat and we just eddiedi out on R. right immediately where you do to regroup before heAding down. Follow me and we'll virtually boat down to where I'm talkin bout...
We peel out below Roadside. I start right and work slowly left through some turbulent wavehole that is messy but never seems to cause trouble.
Immediately downstream some midstream boulders Left of Center create a slackwater zone that swings wide to the left, circumventing some chunkier SUV sized holes on river right that rob paddles through. Parden this vague description but this is the rapid that has changed. It is where the Mudflow dumped into (or one if the places, and locals tell me to expect more mud slides up there.).
So to further orient our discussion:
The bottom of this rapid still has a VW sized Pourover on R. right, against a walled up bank.
Boating into the next rapid 20 yards downstream, you see a chunky wall on river left. It looks possibly undercut but has never given me trouble. Still, the simple line is straight down the middle. But there are a few pourovers in there that are fun to slice and dice over and/or around as levels permit. But we were talkin about the rapid above the one described in this paragraph. The MudFlow rapid.
Be interesting to see it with less agua.
Roadside Attraction is good to go. It is a very classic rapid, too. And just a short hop n skip up the road from where the Mudflow ripped through.
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Posted By: huckin harms
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 8:16am
thank goodness, whew that was close....
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Posted By: James
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 8:21am
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Still bummin cause that boogie below roadside and above Limbo is sum of my favorite parts of the upper.
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Posted By: JD_G
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 8:07pm
Agree James, that boogie section is some of the best.
JP - Thanks for the beta and the virtual tour. Hope to get over that way soon.
BTW the Icicle gauge is now real time on the ecology site...for those who hadn't seen it already. Probably on the river level text service too.
JD
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