(Speed Blur on the Greys...Back when you could see the wood and rocks)It's here, it's here. After a long cold winter, and an even longer rainy cold spring, the earth is finnally begining to warm up, the snow is finnally melting and that water is finnally making it's long journey towards the sea. Thats right, Spring Runoff is here and if your a kayaker...you should be kayaking right now not reading this. If you're not a kayaker I guess you could keep reading...
So this past weekend Rendezevous hosted thier annual Wyoming Whitewater Championships. Friday was a race down the Hoback, Saturday was the rodeo and Sunday was the BoaterX down the Greys. The race on friday had a little bit of raft carnage due to an under estimated log strainer in the middle of the river. 2 poped boats, acouple scratches, but no real injurys. Saturday was super fun, the river shot up over night, and we had an off the couch rodeo at Kings wave. A good turnout of spectators and competitors and we all got to go flop around for a few hours on one of the Snake rivers best play features. Sunday was the race down the greys. I had to work, so I can't say much about it, but we ran it Saturday evening before the party and it was damn near 5ft on the gauge at the takeout. It was the biggest I have seen it yet by far...!!I would imagine there was a bit of carnage.
The dam on the Snake is no longer holding any water back...It's all going to go, and it's going to go big. It's like 18000cfs right now and rising. The rain is still falling, and the mountains are socked in...It's monday, I'm on vacation. Headed to the river! You should too.
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