Hey John and All, I can't figure out how to post on the Attainer's blog, but here is my guest post and maybe John can post it:
-- River Level 4.77, 19,000 cfs
Boat: Eskimo Topo Duo, very old school beat up version, a bit leaky
Kayakers: Jen Sass and The Milan
This must be some sik sweet level, because we went from Anglers to O-Deck and the only time we had to portage was the second drop at back channel rapid (up by Sandy beach).
MD chute was fairly easy, and so was the the VA chute slot (the log in there stuck out about 1 ft above water).
Wet Bottom was definitely not easy - took us two tries and a hard paddle for about a full minute or more to get to the center rock; then continued up along the VA shore side.
At Rocky we ferried across and attained up backchannel rapid but then had to portage the rocks at the entrance to the rapid.
Ferrying across fishladder was really squirrley and we had to take a few runs and even then we didn't look pretty. We both admitted to being hesitant because last year we'd been a bit shook up when the topo duo did a complete vertical ender and got pulled down so deep that Milan and most of the boat was completely submerged for a few seconds. At that time we'd landed upright and completed the ferry, but clearly some post-traumatic stress endures. We agreed next time to work harder to commit to the ferry.
Paddling up portage was not too hard, and the next thing you know we were looking at Great Falls in all its "greatness". We peeled out into the huge waves and boils at O-Deck, and enjoyed the wild ride back down river.
And, that's the river report from a Duo State of Mind.
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