Rafter Forum?

[YakaRaft]

I love both! can't we all just get along?

[onebakedpotato]

Both? There is more than two ways to get down a river.

[JBL]

I too have an obsession with oar rigs and try to get mine on the water as much as possible. Always looking for other rafters to run with. Some of my favs are the Ark, the Poudre, the Eagle, Westwater, Shoshone, Upper Blue and the Pumphouse. If it's class II-IV, I want to row it - I just like being on the oars. I'd like to run Royal Gorge, Northgate Canyon and the Rio Grand (above Creede, CO) this year if anyone is interested...

How about this one (should be pretty damn easy)?

[vardaddy]

That looks like the top of Zoom Flume from the little bit I see of it and the parade of rafts behind it.

[Robt]

Well since we're all coming out of the woodworks here I'll itroduce myself. Just threw in the towel and got a 14' cat last summer and gave up on off and on IK, OC-1 and OC-2 persuits in search of something different (and better so far imo)

I've got 5 spots on a Westwater permit putting in Sunday going overnight if anybody is interested. It's my first time running it too if anybody has some beta to pass along (not trying to jack the thread though).

I spend a lot of time on the Upper-C since it's close and easy. Plan on lots of Shoshone trips this summer though, and some Roaring Fork trips too. Hoping to get down to Taos this spring, Gunny Gorge this summer and some short desert trips in the fall.

Weekends are pretty dedicated to rafting (or will be once ski season ends) if anybody is looking for people to get out with.

Rob

[sj]

OK I too am a Rafter. I think if you ask here and on the BT raft site you should get the answers you are after. sj

[sj]

Rob I spend my weekends in Blue River. Lets keep in touch. sj

[JBL]

rafting, rafting, rafting

[BuckytheGREAT]

Hey. Thanks for replying here. It's much appreciated. Now I know there are a lot of rafters out there. I feel better now. I was beginning to think that there wasn't many when I put out a post asking for advice on food for the Salmon River in Idaho and no one really replied. I figured it was a rafting question that kayakers didn't want to answer.

No, I'm not the Bucky you're thinking of! I probably don't know anyone in this fourm.

[vardaddy]

Originally Posted by Robt

I've got 5 spots on a Westwater permit putting in Sunday going overnight if anybody is interested. It's my first time running it too if anybody has some beta to pass along (not trying to jack the thread though).

Rob

Rob the most important move is to make sure when you approach skull that you are on the right side of the river with your boat at an angle so you can back paddle and start moving from right to left before you enter the rapid.
The other danger part is the magnetic wall which is a couple rapids after skull. The name of the actual rapid escapes me right now but there is a lateral on the right that will typewriter your boat over into the left wall and flip you so make sure you stay right. It doesn't look like much but there is a strange hydraulic there.