Joe Wright: Medium-High Big South: High (top line on the rock). Long draw road is still closed. Spencer Heights: Medium-High (2.75-3ft on the new Spencer Heights gauge) Joe Wright Creek Update As Marty mentioned in his earlier post, Carnito Canyon has changed. The old flake boof move is history, and at this weekend’s levels the rapid is generally [...]
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Little South Update
As clean as I’ve seen the run… great level… surging 85/90 on the gauge at the top and splashing over the 2nd marker rock at the bottom. We put on at 6:15… probably close to the daily peak… and ran it in under 2 hours… but if the wheels fall off the wagon in there [...]
Pine View 2.1 at 0800
Currently 49.4, misty and breezy. Poudre Park Wx:Today: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 71. South southeast wind 6 to 11 mph becoming west southwest. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. West northwest wind between 10 and 14 mph, with gusts as high [...]
URGENT HELP NEEDED TO SAVE THE POUDRE!!
Change.org|Start an Online Petition » Tell the State of Colorado that destroying the Poudre River is not an economic development strategy! Please Help — Just 3 Days To Go! Please take a minute to sign the petition. Governor Hickenlooper launched a “Bottom Up” economic development process for Colorado in early 2011. Unfortunately, the public process [...]
Pine View 1.8 at 0700
Currently 36.9F, sunny and breezy. Filter Plant Warning – there is a significant strainer and/or impalement object in Mad Dog, river right, pointing upstream. Wx for Poudre Park: Today: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. West southwest wind between [...]
Laporte Play Park Update
Major stopper – for now … What’s happened? Although Larimer County representatives have expressed enthusiasm for the idea of building a kayak park, they do not see a way forward at this time – they have put the proposal in the “too hard” basket. The main reasons given are – the County is broke (staff [...]
Pine View 2.9 at 0830
Steady decline turned precipitous, we’re officially below 3! Currently 59.7F, sunny and calm. Today: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Some storms could be severe, with large hail and damaging winds. Partly cloudy, with a high near 86. South southeast wind at 10 mph becoming northeast. – Upper Canyon Flows [...]
Pine View 3.5 at 1130
Currently 78.6F, sunny and breezy. Expect the high to be 89F with 20% chance for Isolated Tstorms after 1300. – Upper Canyon levels @ 7pm: Big South: 3 on the rock gauge. Medium flow. The gate is OPEN!! Spencer Heights: Medium Joe Wright: Low
Proposed Play Park in LaPorte Needs Your Help!
Please take a couple minutes to read about the proposed whitewater park on the Poudre River near Fort Collins in Lions Park, LaPorte, CO: http://www.poudrerockreport.com/play-parks/laporte/ Mandy Kotzman has put a great deal of time and energy towards building a whitewater play park on the Poudre River, in LaPorte. The proposal is gaining traction with the [...]
Pine View 3.85 at 0930!
This from Camp Falbo earlier today: Holding steady the Rock shows a low .9 or a high .8- either way it’s pretty close to the bar at 4. Currently 65.3F, sunny and breezy. Expect the high to reach 84F with a slight chance for rain. Lower N Fork down to 520 cfs. One more day [...]
JW-Spencer Shots from today and I think Whiteline changed
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 [...]
Pine View 4.8 at 0700
Currently 45.6F, cloudy and calm. WX.com expects a warmer day reaching the 60′s with a good chance for scattered showers. Expect better Wx tomorrow. Don’t know if I believe it, but Colorado River Flows is claiming 1040 cfs for the Lower North Fork at Livermore! Have fun. – Little South Fork: Juicin (HIGH)! Our group [...]
Pine View 5.2 at 0930
Happy to see the “experts” the Coloardoan used last week don’t know their @ss from a hydraulic in the water! Peak Memorial Day weekend at 4, S#!T! Currently 65.7F, and sunny with a slight breeze. Expect a high of 83F with 10% chance for T-Storms. Lower N Fork still moving at 682 cfs. Main stem [...]
Upper Canyon Flows
This is an update on river flows for the upper Poudre Canyon, as observed throughout the day. All stretches of the Poudre River are running high, and rising. Beware of wood as there is a lot of it moving down river right now, and more will be moving overnight. Rustic Runs: MEDIUM-HIGH. Today was a [...]
Log on Rustic bridge (Crown Pt Rd)
Upper Rustic wood update, from John Tillema earlier today: – For anyone running Upper Rustic, they should take the right channel on the first bridge below Chapel bridge. This is the “Crown Point” road based on the road sign. There is a log blocking the left channel on the backside of the pylons. Right channel [...]
Supplement to this morning’s post…
I forgot to mention, there’s a new log in Ansel Watrous Falls, river left, close to the bottom of the falls. At first it looks like a rock, as you get closer it becomes an obvious log facing upstream. Could take someone by surprise. Also, thank you to whomever removed the 16 foot log that [...]
Pine View Solid 4.00 at 0830!
Currently 58.1F partly cloudy and calm. NOAA expects the area around Gateway Park to reach 77F with a 30% chance for T-Storms. They expect a cooling tomorrow, high of 69F. The N Fork is still pumping at a whopping 787 cfs at the Livermore gauge. Little South Fork is LOW and scrapie, but runnable. Today [...]
North Fork Access & Spencer Heights log
Upper North Fork River Access- Notice to all Upper North Fork boaters: Access to the river from the highway bridge is private property and CLOSED TO ALL BOATERS! Please respect the landowners by following the guidebook directions to the put-in. Accessing the river from the highway means trespassing on private land. In speaking with several [...]
River flows unchanged
Currently 44.5F, cloudy, and windy with early morning drizzle. Today we can expect a high of 50F and varying degrees of precip leading to overnight snow. NOAA has been warning of an impending winter storm that may dump feet of snow in the high country.
Pine View still at .5
At 0700 Pine View is unchanged from Sat. Currently 34F and sunny, we can expect a high of 70. The Colorado Marathon has the road congested, but even the slowest runners should be out of the Canyon by now.
The gate to Halligan Reservoir is open
Pine View 0.8 and log be gone…
Pine View is .8 at 1030 this morning. It’s currently 55.3F, sunny and breezy. For more info on the dangerous logs, see below. Pine View Disney Rock log- rumor has it an anonymous group of private boaters (unaffiliated with any organization) worked on it a few hours yesterday and dislodged it. That hazard has been [...]
Camp Falbo is Back on the Report
Welcome Boaters and River Enthousiasts, Camp Falbo is back with Rock Report and two “Danger” warnings. The Pine View Rock report for this morning is 0.85 at 0700 this morning. Up from 0.75 at 1900 last night, but I did get a report of 0.9 yesterday morning. Today’s forcast is calling for a high of [...]


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