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Upper Canyon Report – GATE IS OPEN!

RiverWrangler — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:01:32 +0000

As of last night…
Big South – GATE IS OPEN! Fluffy medium at 4 on the BS Bridge Rock
Joe Wright – medium low
Spencer – medium 2 on the boneyard gauge

Source to Canyon Mouth

RiverWrangler — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:59:42 +0000

On Friday evening Austin Woody, Kyle McCutchen and myself put-in 1/4 mile below Poudre Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park on approximately 30 cfs – just enough to float a boat in a four foot wide streambed. On Saturday evening we took out at the big eddy below Picnic Rock, exhausted, satisfied, in awe of the river before us, having paddled it’s entire canyon in under 30 hours. What a river, what a season!

Cutch on an early morning Fantasy Flight

Big South update: Clean of new wood for the most part without any wood portages at a relatively high flow. Fantasy Flight is back open for business. Couple of wood ducks below Double Trouble, first one on the right, second in the middle (left part of the log, been there forever). Clean as it has ever been. Awesome. Spencer is clean.

Sunday 7/12 Upper Canyon Flows

RiverWrangler — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:52:03 +0000

At 9am:
Joe Wright – Medium (Carnito boof covered by an inch or two)
Big South – Rock gauge several inches underwater
Spencer Gauge 3.25 (~4.25 on Sportsman gauge with nothing coming through the tunnel)
Saturday evening water was significantly higher. Waterline on river left acros from new gauge in Boneyard rapid indicated at least 18-24 inches.

The River Gods have spoken – 1.9 @ 8pm – come and git sum

RiverWrangler — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:39:07 +0000

Upper Canyon Update

RiverWrangler — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:52:23 +0000

Things dropped off considerably since mid week in the upper canyon.

Big South – 4inches showing on gauge rock. Lapping just above the top line. Nice manageable high level if they would just open the stinking gate.

Joe Wright – low to too low for me. Fan rock boof in Carnito was not in with water only barely flowing over the right edge. Definite boat abuse at best.

Spencer Heights – still at a nice level. Pretty perfect medium flow for multiple laps (what we did this evening). My guess was around 3.2 on the “old” Sportsmans gauge with no Tunnel input.

Also – Whiteline has DEFINITELY changed! I think we lost our choicest boof on the Front Range. It’s a sad day in the Fort today but who knows, maybe it will be sweet… hard to tell.

JW-Spencer Shots from today and I think Whiteline changed

RiverWrangler — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:17:55 +0000

The Joe Wright/Spencer Heights combo IS in. JW is a solid medium high/high and Spencer was approximately 3.5 on Sportsman’s with no tunnel. Two new pieces of wood to avoid on Joe Wright. One will require a portage at even slightly lower flows. This wood is early in the run below Carnito but above the main action and blind corners. It is a notorious wood collecting spot where the left channel was open the last few years and where the right channel was a sneak a number of years ago. Neither of these were open today but there was tiny bit of water going through the far right channel. There is an o.k. eddy on the right and then spot the knuckle dragging channel through some leggy bushes.

The other new wood is just below all of the main corner action. It looks river wide from above but you can pretty easily get around it on the left.

Spencer Heights is the goods with no woods.

Whiteline appears to have changed. Not sure what happened but the high water definitely re-arranged some stuff at the bottom elongating the main drop. Interested to see what it will look like at lower flows.

Some pics from today by Jake, Austin’s roommate.

ES Corn Holing Holio. Fluffy

Nick Gottlieb heading into Carnito

Quinn Connell launching the Carnito Flake. Quinn and Nick are on tour - gas money payed for by the Dartmouth Kayak Club!

Jacobi finishing Boneyard

Airborne Austin

Demshitz Dashboard Empanada 7pm tonight @ the Lyric Cinema

RiverWrangler — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:44:01 +0000

Approaching SIX FEET on the rock yesterday and the gauge has leveled off around 4000 cfs for today!

Pine View @ 6 today! Photo by Holley G

Demshitz Jared Seiler and Dave Fussili are in town and they are doing a paddle with the bros today meeting at RMA at noon. Then they will be headed to the Lyric Cinema at 7pm for a showing of Evan Garcia’s new movie Dashboard Empanada. If you haven’t seen the Demshitz movies then you are in for a treat. No holds barred running of the biggest whitewater in Chile is what’s on the menu. If you’ve ever wanted to see 6-10 of the best paddlers in a row stomp the line on the hardest whitewater in South America, this is your chance.

7pm Lyric Cinema

300 E Mountain Ave

$8 @ the door

Lower Gnarrows is… um in, I guess

RiverWrangler — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:03:51 +0000

The Gnarrows saw some high water descents this morning and I just got some pics so I thought I’d share. Cheers to the boys who fired up Lowers Oli D, Javier and Haagen Dazen!

Middle Gnarrows Grrrrr face

Brad Higinbotham styling Lowers

Hignbotham was on the 5 o'clock news for this daring descent and I heard his interview was pretty entertaining as well. I'll post it if I can find it on the nets soon

Kevin Jacobi gettin it done in the playboat

One more event to add this week + photo of Big South bridge from Sunday at 6pm

RiverWrangler — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:42:39 +0000

Below Big South bridge at... cranking! Sunday night 6pm. Gauge rock was at least a foot underwater.

Fairy Slipper Orchids on the Big Stout

The new Demshitz movie Dashboard Empanada will be playing at the Lyric Cinema here in Fort Collins on Sunday June 13th at 7pm. The cost will be $8 and Jared Seiler and Dave Fusilli from Team Pyranha and paddlers in the film will be there to answer questions and give some background on, as they like to say, running the brown. Should be a great time. Watch the trailer below.

“Dashboard Empanada” Demshitz Whitewater Kayaking Movie 2010 from jared seiler on Vimeo.

Dawn Patrol Lil’ South Fork – 1.5 on gauge, no rocks showing at 10:45am

RiverWrangler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:03:54 +0000

Good level medium/low and NO PORTAGES!!!! (if you get a little creative… maybe two or three for the timid)

Big shout out to Kent and Scotty and whoever else was involed in the flossing.