North wash take out. rated M

We took out a trip on North Wash yesterday... watching that snout go up the cliff was insane.

We hand carried 3x16' rafts up – not pleasant, but not impossible.

Thanks to everybody for helping us get out effectively. Hope we were able to do a little in return and get outta y'all's ways

Only other thing to add is – watch that fast current through there! It is freaking tight!

Unbelievable that there is really no solution to this. Just brutal.

richp said:

Seems like the outfitters and NPS could engineer and fund a reverse version of the launch ramp up on the Middle Fork. Didn't some kind of cooperative arrangement contribute to the ramp at Pearce Ferry?

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There is this raging debate... Everybody advocates extending the Hite ramp. My question is... why don't you leave the original Hite ramp high and dry, run a little gravel road to the river, and pour a new ramp below Hite. Seems hard to build a real ramp at North Wash, based on the perched river and all the sediment.

Idk, until then I feel like you either have boats you can break apart and carry up a cliff, or put enough hp behind your boat so you can bang over to Bullfrog in a few hrs.