Whitewater Forum: Cooper or Tye?

Cooper or Tye?

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Topic: Cooper or Tye?

Posted By: up4air
Subject: Cooper or Tye?
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 10:19am

Anyone interested in hitting up one of these on Saturday? I've run Cooper before, and seen Tye at higher water but just walked through the park. Looks fun.

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More water, please.

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Posted By: ChristianKnight
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 9:23am

I'll most likely be up on the Tye later today and/or tomorrow. See you there.

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Catch your eddies,
Christian

Posted By: huckin harms
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 10:38am

Rochelle, FYI Cooper and Tye are not the same grade in difficulty. Similar but Tye is a step up in my opinion.

Also, Tye is not low at all now. IT's crankin. Don't let Christian (a TT Master) bait you. There is a small sapling tree at the Takeout Bridge (upstream from Alpine). That tree is a good spot to guage the level off of. IF the water is at the saplings base, then the run is MED. IF its 8-10" below then its low, but still doable. When the base of the tree is under water and water is above base then start thinkin MED to MED HIGH to HIGH depending on how far water is above base. EH< 5" above base and some very capable paddlers begin portaging Paranoia.

Rochelle, you are a crazy riverboarder. I'd rather not recomment this run for you, but that will only inspire you further, so check things out. You totally could do it, but then again it's not something I'd suggest do to the gradient of some drops and the rocks you will hit in some of the bouldergardens. Hope this helps....

Not trying kill your trip Christian! Fire it UP!

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Posted By: up4air
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 11:53am

Thanks for the info. I was leaning toward Cooper, but would still like to hit up the Tye one of these days.

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More water, please.

Posted By: olyyakker
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2011 at 5:47pm

Has anyone done this recently? Is there any wood? Is this a pretty high level?
Could a Russian Cataraft (shredder) get down? Thanks for any Beta.

Posted By: olyyakker
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2011 at 5:48pm

I'm talking about the Cooper by the way.

Posted By: up4air
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2011 at 11:25am

There is one river wide log above S turn that would most likely be a portage for you on river left. Kayaks can duck under it on the right. Wall of Voodoo has a 70-80 degree turn in a sort of narrow space unless you can bust the hole, but the hole sets you up to shove you against an undercut wall on the right and is not the preferred line. I'll have helmet camera footage from Sat. I need to edit and post but someone else might already have some out there. By the time I get around to editing it the flow might be too low! Also the trail down the hill to the put in is a little steep but not terrible.

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More water, please.

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