Thanksgiving week Sky
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Printed Date: 27 Sep 2025 at 9:47am
Topic: Thanksgiving week Sky
Posted By: BurningDaylight
Subject: Thanksgiving week Sky
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 8:39am
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First off...Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Renting a cabin on the Sky near Gold Bar for a Thanksgiving get together and wanted to see if anyone was planning to paddle Thursday through Saturday.
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Posted By: PaddleGirl
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 9:28am
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i might be up for paddling on thanksgiving. feeling noncommital, however
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Posted By: jshap
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 11:22am
Hi! I am headed to Seattle from Portland for Thanksgiving. Super into kayaking on Thursday or Friday. Whats the sky all about? play boats? Give a shout
Jesse
9712358940
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Posted By: commander fun
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 11:32am
i'd be interested for sure.
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Posted By: turtlepower
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 5:46pm
I am gonna try to get out there around 1pm tomorrow if anyone is into running a lap or two around said time
Matt
509-989-1848
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Posted By: pacnwboater
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 7:05pm
I'm down for Friday around 1 for a lap!
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Posted By: Mr.Grinch
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 7:12pm
Who's taking aim on Friday? Free all day during daylight, and would like to turn a Big lap from however high up (above the confluence) or double the Main.
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nnln.
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Posted By: wolovekg
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 7:37pm
im game for Friday
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Greg
541.840.0807
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Posted By: BurningDaylight
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 7:45pm
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I'm up for Friday, early works, planning to make a day of it.
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Posted By: commander fun
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 7:53pm
1pm sounds good for thurs. i'll give you a call matt
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Posted By: pacnwboater
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 8:12pm
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I'm driving over from Spokane on Friday so I can be there around 1.
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Posted By: commander fun
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2013 at 8:26pm
cool. give me a call if anything changes 206 553 9461
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2013 at 12:48am
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Originally posted by jshap
Hi! I am headed to Seattle from Portland for Thanksgiving. Super into kayaking on Thursday or Friday. Whats the sky all about? play boats? Give a shout
Jesse
9712358940
Yo- help this brother out!
Sounds like a party qnd Id love to join but I gotta work solid all through that block.
Jshap, to answer ya, the Sky is a MUST RUN classic of PNW whitewater. A Seattle Staple of the highest degree. In my opinion its a toss up between a playboat or creekboat. You should be able to enjoy either. Its also a great run for rafts, I-K's, or whatever floats. Boulder Drop is class IV at all flows unless it is class V (like when its high or if you are commercially guiding). The rest of the run is broad bouldery class III. If the Skykomish doesn't impress you keep adding water in increments of 5,000-10,000cfs and sooner or later it will.
Its dry now, so your looking at low flows, but good quality water none the less. Anything above 1200cfs is straight up quality. Best low water paddling anywhere, really. It runs 365 days a year. 10,000 or more and the tribs feeding it go off and they are all pretty fun. So you should boat it, if only to see why you need to come back up when its stomping high.
Seriously. If you are avid about this whitewater stuff you owe it to yourself to learn a little about the drainage. Tye, Foss, Miller, Rapid, for starters, not to mention other misc. Gnar upstream and Clandestine Goods.
FOOLS WANT TO DAM SUNSET FALLS, DAWG!! TO SELL PUNY ENERGY CREDITS TO CALIfu*kINFORNIA!
so damn, the way people be "sleepin through a revolution", The "Yosemite Of Washington" is likely to be raped next time you are up here. Because no one gives a sh*t about nothin sacred.
Prove me wrong. Send another comment to FERC by December 1.
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2013 at 12:57am
So, yeah- I probably won't let a single Skykomish thread pop up without plugging this:
http://www.savetheskyriver.org/petition/
Sorry you gotta cut and paste the link because this PP here is broken and daddy is too busy fixin other sh*t.
EVERY SINGLE PADDLER IN WASHINGTON AND OREGON AT LEAST SHOULD TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO GET INVOLVED WITH THIS. Repeatedly. Cuz its gonna keep rearing its ugly head until we slay it utterly and completely. Stay the course.
keep it real for real.
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Posted By: jshap
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2013 at 8:59am
JP, you da man. To hell with the califu*kfornians. Represent represent.
Sounds like there is a quorum at 1. Where's the rally point? Safeway parking lot on the highway en route? Let me know 9712358940
Jesse
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Posted By: BurningDaylight
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2013 at 9:15am
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New to the Sky, I'll keep looking for the meeting point. I'm staying about 2 miles up from Sky town on the S. Fork. Cheers
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Posted By: turtlepower
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2013 at 9:43am
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Probably looking to meet up at split rock, there's a pull out on the side of hwy 2, if you're heading east coming from Monroe it'll be about 2 miles past big eddy park & will come up right as the river starts to really come into view from the road, just upstream from a railroad bridge, sorry I don't know the mile marker but it's easy enough to spot just look for cars with boats on top..
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Posted By: jshap
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2013 at 11:42am
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Word! Split rock at 1. I'll be there!
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Posted By: wolovekg
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2013 at 4:19pm
what time is everyone thinking tomorrow? im gonna throw out 12
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Greg
541.840.0807
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Posted By: pacnwboater
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2013 at 7:40am
I'll be there at 1 / 1:15 that work with everybody?
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Posted By: Mr.Grinch
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2013 at 9:53am
11:30 or noon is what Greg and I discussed yesterday, so he can get back earlier.
I bet there'll be a few people buzzing around out there.
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nnln.
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