Nisqually on Sunday?
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Topic: Nisqually on Sunday?
Posted By: theo
Subject: Nisqually on Sunday?
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2011 at 3:17pm
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Not a usual river for this crowd, but would anybody be interested in the Nisqually on Sunday? It's listed as a III, but there's really only one rapid that's a III; the rest are II or maybe a couple are II+ (and it's not chock full of rapids at that). It's pretty though and, most importantly, it's close to my home :) I was thinking of meet ing at the power station takeout at 11 if anybody's game.
Ted
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2011 at 8:27pm
Ted, sometime when thete's more water I would be down. I'm afraid its way too low for me to want to drive down there right now. But remember me some other time when flows are more average.
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2011 at 8:35pm
Actually, I stand corrected :
Its about 1020 right now, which is listed as a boatable flow. I guess it would probably wash out with too much water as wide and flat as it is. I only ran it once in 2005 or 2006 with Dangerous Dave. As I recall he kept mumbling about sausage...
Anyway, I doubt I'll rally but there is a slim possibility. You can always come up n run the Lower Green- PPeeps be runnin it all weekend, sounds like
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Posted By: theo
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2011 at 9:54pm
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Yes, the Nisqually is definitely runnable. On the low side, but well within its range. Leave a message tomorrow if you're up for it. I'll be gone all day tomorrow skiing so I won't be able to respond to anything until evening. Besides you, I've received a couple of other maybes. If nobody wants to do the Nisqually, maybe I'll head up to the lower Green and try to hook up with the crowd playing there. That's the river that sounds like it's going to be awfully low, though. Ted
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2011 at 10:12pm
Yeah, it will be. One or two spots will likely be absurdly manky. But, its 30 min from me. We'll see. Have fun skiin.
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Posted By: meryl
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2011 at 10:50pm
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actually, the Nisqually gets some big fun bouncy waves when it's high
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 1:16am
Throw some numbers out there for me to sink a paddle blade into:what's "high" (for "big bouncy waves"). 'Cause with a little beta, I might be tempted to check it out sometime...
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Posted By: meryl
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 6:40am
Posted By: jwcook
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 8:29am
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I wish I could, I'd really just like to run it to check it off my list of rivers to try once, but I have finals this coming week. You wouldn't be planing on running it again between the 18th and the 30th would you? I could go any day of the week between then.
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Posted By: mokelumnekid
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 4:32pm
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Jared- wait till I'm back from Fiji on 12/25 then you Greg and I will do it for sure. Promise. Been down it three times already, scenic, some play but flat water too. But a bit of a drive for us in North Seattle but we can go together since we live so close.
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Posted By: theo
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 8:04pm
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I actually run the Nisqually quite often because it's so close for me. Any time you feel like doing it, put a post up on this site and I'd love to join you. Ted
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Posted By: theo
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 8:09pm
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Yeah, it's bouncy at 6000 cfs ... but ... it rarely gets that high. You have to catch it after one of those major Fall rain weeks, or maybe during the height of the Spring melt. Ted
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Posted By: mokelumnekid
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 8:32pm
Ted- will do. I have a friend Greg in Oly who does the Nisqually a lot. We'll ping you for sure next time which will be soon after Xmas. I like it as it allows me to practice a lot of basic stuff, tho there isn't much to keep the 'hardman/ woman' interested, great for basic practice in a very scenic lowland corridor, kind of like Headworks but maybe twice as long. My notes indicate "the higher, the better" as the most I ran it at was something like 1500. The nice waves are just after Big Kahuna, but that's about it at typical levels.
Great bird watching as I recall.
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Posted By: theo
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 11:06pm
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Yeah, guaranteed multiple eagle sightings in winter, along with many other species.
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Posted By: jwcook
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2011 at 8:37am
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I'm up for a scenic float, or something that's going to keep me occupied with the whitewater ahead. I just want to try somewhere new, with a change of scenery! When I started kayaking I made a list of all the class II-III rivers I wanted to "be able" to paddle, but most have minimal beta and some aren't even listed on pp or aw. I'd like to fix that and I still want to paddle that list, take quality video of the run and call it good. I'll look forward to paddling the "new to me" river this winter break with you guys!
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