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Date: 08 Mar 2007 08:26:20
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Subject: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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Hey, lookee here, a thread from back in the glory days of rbp is the
current pick on Paddling Life's "Thread of the month" selection:
(righthand sidebar link at the bottom of the Paddling Life page)
http://www.paddlinglife.net/
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Date: 13 Mar 2007 07:37:29
From: riverman
Subject: Re: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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On Mar 13, 7:35 am, Bill Tuthill <ccree...@yahoo.com > wrote:
> riverman <myronb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > --riverman (aka Octripper)
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> Riverman, I didn't realize you are the same person as Octripper!
>
> > I haven't heard anyone claim to have run it earlier yet. I do remember
> > getting LOTS of looks at put-ins when I was running the rivers in that
> > region back then, and I never did see any other open boats on a river.
> > I once ran Boxcar on the Deschutes, and the photographer who was
> > taking pics for the rafting trips said that I was the first canoe he
> > had seen go through there in all the years he had been taking
> > pictures, but I'm considerably less sure that I had the first canoe
> > run of Boxcar than I am of Husum. I might also have the the first run
> > of the Skykomish, but I swam out the bottom of Airplane Turn, so it
> > doesn't really count. Oh, to be young and impervious again.
>
> Boxcar is not that difficult; I would let my teenage daughter run it
> in her IK. However Husum gorge... nope.
>
> Which one is Husum Falls? Is it Big Brother or BZ Falls? Or maybe
> I have the wrong section of river. Aha! Husum is below BZ Corner.
>
> Here are some pictures of my friends running Big Brother, Double Drop,
> and other stuff upstream on the White Salmon:
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> http://riverlog.blogspot.com/2005/06/green-truss.html
Yow, those look like fun. What we ran that day was considerably
smaller than those drops.
Its been.....uh.....27 years (WOW).....but I remember the put-in was a
few miles upstream from the falls. The hike-in was down a long winding
trail into a gorge, but the rapids were not big drops: mostly short
and rocky. There was one section with a wall that was a dozen feet
deep or so, and only about 10 feet wide, but most of the rapids were
probably only technical class 4s. The stretch we ran was about 5-8
miles, I think.
>From doing some online research, it must have been from BZ Corner to
the falls. I remember thinking at the time that it was 'Beasey
Corner', and driving past a road sign several times that said 'BZ'. I
also remember something about a cableway, but we carried our boats
down a switchbacky trail.
Husum Falls is just above the railroad bridge, right in Husum. The
bedrock is about 12-15 feet vertical, but with the pourover and a
kicker rock at the top left, I suppose the actual vertical is only
8-10 feet. The real challenge (IIRC) was to hit the soft spot at the
bottom, among the rocks and recirculating hole.
--riverman
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Date: 10 Mar 2007 21:30:24
From: riverman
Subject: Re: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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On Mar 10, 2:14 am, Bill Tuthill <ccree...@yahoo.com > wrote:
> McCreaPadd...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hey, lookee here, a thread from back in the glory days of rbp is the
> > current pick on Paddling Life's "Thread of the month" selection:
> > (righthand sidebar link at the bottom of the Paddling Life page)
> >http://www.paddlinglife.net/
>
> [or search Google Groups for "First Canoe descent of Husum Falls"]
>
> So what was the upshot? Was Ocotripper's the first successful
> canoe run of Husum Falls? Or had the Indians already done it.
I hvaen't heard anyone claim to have run it earlier yet. I do remember
getting LOTS of looks at put-ins when I was running the rivers in that
region back then, and I never did see any other open boats on a river.
I once ran Boxcar on the Deschutes, and the photographer who was
taking pics for the rafting trips said that I was the first canoe he
had seen go through there in all the years he had been taking
pictures, but I'm considerably less sure that I had the first canoe
run of Boxcar than I am of Husum. I might also have the the first run
of the Skykomish, but I swam out the bottom of Airplane Turn, so it
doesn't really count.
Oh, to be young and impervious again.
--riverman (aka Octripper)
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Date: 12 Mar 2007 15:35:30
From: Bill Tuthill
Subject: Re: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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riverman <myronbuck@yahoo.com > wrote:
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> --riverman (aka Octripper)
Riverman, I didn't realize you are the same person as Octripper!
> I haven't heard anyone claim to have run it earlier yet. I do remember
> getting LOTS of looks at put-ins when I was running the rivers in that
> region back then, and I never did see any other open boats on a river.
> I once ran Boxcar on the Deschutes, and the photographer who was
> taking pics for the rafting trips said that I was the first canoe he
> had seen go through there in all the years he had been taking
> pictures, but I'm considerably less sure that I had the first canoe
> run of Boxcar than I am of Husum. I might also have the the first run
> of the Skykomish, but I swam out the bottom of Airplane Turn, so it
> doesn't really count. Oh, to be young and impervious again.
Boxcar is not that difficult; I would let my teenage daughter run it
in her IK. However Husum gorge... nope.
Which one is Husum Falls? Is it Big Brother or BZ Falls? Or maybe
I have the wrong section of river. Aha! Husum is below BZ Corner.
Here are some pictures of my friends running Big Brother, Double Drop,
and other stuff upstream on the White Salmon:
http://riverlog.blogspot.com/2005/06/green-truss.html
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Date: 09 Mar 2007 10:14:56
From: Bill Tuthill
Subject: Re: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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McCreaPaddler@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey, lookee here, a thread from back in the glory days of rbp is the
> current pick on Paddling Life's "Thread of the month" selection:
> (righthand sidebar link at the bottom of the Paddling Life page)
> http://www.paddlinglife.net/
[or search Google Groups for "First Canoe descent of Husum Falls"]
So what was the upshot? Was Ocotripper's the first successful
canoe run of Husum Falls? Or had the Indians already done it.
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Date: 08 Mar 2007 16:15:07
From: riverman
Subject: Re: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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On Mar 9, 4:23 am, "Oci-One Kanubi" <rhop...@earthlink.net > wrote:
> On Mar 8, 12:51 pm, McCreaPadd...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > > I'm heading out in a couple of hours for 4 days of paddling
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> > Richard, say Hi to all my old rbp pals. Is this the Lenoir City thing?
>
> Yeh, Lenoir City. I forgot to mention Larry Cable (KY). He may show
> up there, too.
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>
Heh heh, that was a classic thread. I member it well, and soon we'll
ALL be saying 'twenty years ago..."
I've got a bodacious trip lined up for this summer. I'm working with
an outfitter in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia who is importing a fleet of
Wenonah boats to supplement his flyfishing guide service. I'm going to
run the Delger-Muron river (class 1-2) in NW Mongolia, on the border
with Siberia, with some friends for 8 days. A writer/photographer for
Canoe&Kayak is coming along, as this is the first canoe descent of
this river, and we hope it heralds the opening of a new type of
tourism for Mongolia. To date, no one does real self-support canoe
expeditions.
The boats get shipped this week, the paddles will be coming from Shaw
and Tenney soon after, and the rest of the gear from NRS within the
month.
There's room for 1-3 more people, if anyone's interested.
--riverman
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Date: 08 Mar 2007 12:23:33
From: Oci-One Kanubi
Subject: Re: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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On Mar 8, 12:51 pm, McCreaPadd...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I'm heading out in a couple of hours for 4 days of paddling
>
> Richard, say Hi to all my old rbp pals. Is this the Lenoir City thing?
Yeh, Lenoir City. I forgot to mention Larry Cable (KY). He may show
up there, too.
-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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Date: 08 Mar 2007 09:51:54
From:
Subject: Re: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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> I'm heading out in a couple of hours for 4 days of paddling
Richard, say Hi to all my old rbp pals. Is this the Lenoir City thing?
I'm leaving pre-dawn tomorrow for 4 days of paddling some coastal
bays; doing a review of canoe and kayak sails and camping along the
way.
And Wilko, yer right, that thread was afterthe real height of rbp's
powers. I miss the creative contributions and contributors of those
days.
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Date: 08 Mar 2007 09:15:20
From: Oci-One Kanubi
Subject: Re: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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On Mar 8, 11:26 am, McCreaPadd...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey, lookee here, a thread from back in the glory days of rbp is the
> current pick on Paddling Life's "Thread of the month" selection:
>
> (righthand sidebar link at the bottom of the Paddling Life page)
>
> http://www.paddlinglife.net/
A real classic.
I'm heading out in a couple of hours for 4 days of paddling in
Tennessee; I'll be on Clear Creek (of the Obed) tomorrow with
Hizzoner, the former r.b.p poster Chris Kelly, of Columbia, MO, then
joining a big OC and C-boat rendezvous near Knoxville. With any luck
Barnett Williams (Nashville, TN) will be there. I am also expecting
to see former r.b.p personages Julie Keller (formerly of Atlanta, GA)
and Jim Michaud (Hartford, CT). This is a nine-day event, and I will
just miss another former r.b.p stalwart, Scott Broam (Columbia, SC, I
think) who will arrive for the final four days.
Brad Snow and Myron Buck still stick their noses in here from time to
time. Darth Rival ("May the farce be with you") seems to have
vanished into well-deserved obscurity.
-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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Richard Hopley Winston-Salem, NC, USA
. rhopley[at]earthlink[dot]net
. Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll
. rhopley[at]wfubmc[dot]edu
. OK, OK; computer programming for scientific research also matters
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Date: 08 Mar 2007 17:59:24
From: Wilko
Subject: Re: PL's Thread of the Month is an rbp classic
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McCreaPaddler@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey, lookee here, a thread from back in the glory days of rbp is the
> current pick on Paddling Life's "Thread of the month" selection:
>
> (righthand sidebar link at the bottom of the Paddling Life page)
>
> http://www.paddlinglife.net/
Sheez Mike, now where did they turn that one up?
Funny to see how things once were, although that's already when RBP was
already well past its height...
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Wilko van den Bergh wilko<a t)dse(d o t >nl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
---Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.---
http://kayaker.nl/
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