Gore Canyon 6/23

raft3plus · 06-16-2007

A buddy is coming in from out of town and we're heading up to gore canyon to give it a shot. It's running a little high today at 2400cfs but it's also daaaang hot right now, so it should be lower next weekend after the heat.

Anyone wanting to run that day too, let's hook up.

D

stacie · 06-18-2007

I was a guide in Utah on Westwater and Cat for 3 years and I'm new to Colorado but would like to try gore along with some other sections. I have run parts of the arkensas, gunny gorge, roaring fork, salt, and shoshone at high water, but nothing quite like gore. If you don't mind showing us the run we would love to join you. I have a 14 ft sb if that would be good for the run. Let me know at stacie@lycos.com or 801-391-4059.

raft3plus · 06-19-2007

Gore is running at 3690 right now which is unbelievably burly. Heat is not letting off and it is supposed to be hottest this friday making the run possible in the 3K range, perhaps as high as now if there is four more days of snow available to sustain this bump.

Noticed that rafters tend to like the 650 to about 1100cfs range, it helps making the moves a lot more doable. Have run it about 40 times now, with the highest being just below 2K, which started to get pushy. Therefore at easily 3-4 times the average flow, this would be an unusual experience for all of us. Yeah, I have a lump in my throat.... whew. It still runs during the lowest portion of the season since Gore Canyon is dam controlled so it should be no problem if you decide for a more reasonable level in your rig later.

For your info, we'll be bringing at least 3 CreatureCraft and 3 people so far; Two two seaters (G2/G4 Hybrid, G4) and a four seater G3. We'll have two oreframes and at least four seats available for multiple setup options. Shane is taking his hybrid as an oreframe, I'll be R2-ing with Randy and someone (you or someone equally skilled) can take the G3 as an oreframe or R2 it with an addl person. I recommend oreframing it, since it yields the most control... my favorite way to do Gore actually. Conversely, your 14ft self bailer could be a blast in there! Plan is to camp fri night, start early morning, take our time during the run, scout often, stop to film and avoid 2pm winds if possible. Please join us.

The biggest footage I've seen is from Darren running it at 3K and actually gore rapid looks sooo much easier. He is in Peru this week (and actually a little bummed about missing gore) but said to watch out for the rocks as they are still sharper at the high levels since it doesn't run like that often. So no hitting rocks in the *really* fast and big water... yipes. I'll dig out some footage of gore rapid at 3K and post it later... most likely tomorrow.

Dirk

griz · 06-19-2007

Yeah, Stacie, bring your big throw bags so you can haul all of those POS Creature Crafts out every hole they try to run but get stuck in or wrap every rock they slam into cuz they perform like floating turds. Don't think you are going to see any great lines if you go with this crew.

Here is some footage from their site of them running Gore. I guess this looks good to them. I'd be more inclined to burn the footage than try to use it to sell my product.

http://www.creaturecraft.com/_cms/Media/CO-GoreCanyon-GoreRapid-2004-10.mov

raft3plus · 06-19-2007

Anyone else who's going,

As for throwbags, yes, bring an extra one. We'll be bringing extra gear, body harness and are planning to setup safety at tunnel and toilet bowl. Better safe than sorry out there.

Check out more pos rides at this one, only this is at 3000cfs:

Google Video result for http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6536019501776905593

First is a shot of G1 going down Applesauce, then Gore rapid. Notice how the rock above gore rapid is becoming a pourover and below is just pure gnar-gnar.

The 2004-10 footage shows us going left after ginger, as we always do (bad line?). Conventional rafts usually go right. That's Darren and Bob talking mad shit on the camera as Jason and I are getting a little surfbreak in this cute little divot before gore rapid.. why they were doing that, I don't know, but I found it amusing so I left it in the footage and slapped it up on the website!

Dirk

stacie · 06-19-2007

I would love to join the trip but I'm a little concerned about the 14 footer. I was just talking with my boss Joel Bishop (He claims to know everyone and says I can trust you guys for a good run) and he says doing it at this level in a regular raft could be death but would be awesome in a creature craft. I would love to try one out. If you have enough room to accomodate us, I have 3 people dying to do this run-me, husband, best friend. If you don't have the room I can take the friend on a later trip.