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Originally Posted by Berger
My brother and I did a self-support of the Middle Fork two weeks ago in kayaks at some level above 7 feet. The FS said the river was at 8.8 but according the USGS records it was probably around 7.5 and I was fucking scared. Huge logs were floating with us, mainly through the Impassable Canyon. Does anyone know if the trail follows the river all the way to the confluence with the Main Salmon? Two female rangers at Indian Creek informed us that the trail followed the river all the way to the end, but from my map and from what I observed the trail swerves away at Big Creek. I was scared if I swam I would have to hike out, which would have been the case if I did swim, and from what I saw there is no fucking trail passed Big Creek. I planned on using the trail to either hike out if I lost my boat and/or portage some of the rapids at the end like Weber, Redside etc. the class IV's, but there was no trail and we ran the shit, and were freaked out. I thought about telling the FS about those dumbass girls but nobody really seemed to care. If someone was to swim in there at flood stage, or go into one of those holes, the likelihood of coming out would be slim.
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You go to do a river at what is predicted to be peak week or close to it, you get scared and want to blame some FS interns for the trail not being where you thought it was - BTW this has been common knowledge that there is no trail through the last twenty miles since ohhhh around 1937 and then expect someone to give a shit cuz you want to tattle to the FS that someone may have given not great info or you misunderstood what they said.
Dude - grow a set, wash the sand out of your mangina and come see us again sometime.
I have been down at that level and it was scary. Scary fast, but actually a lot of things were washed out. Going 15 miles an hour is interesting cuz things happen so fast. I would have loved to be out there a couple of weeks ago.
No sneak at Weber but almost everything else can be.
Oh yeah there is no trail after Big Creek. But you do wash out to the Main Salmon pretty easily. Just stay in the current for an hour and you'll be there.