ARG to Richland

[davidbob]

ARG is putting rubber on Richland Creek. If it tops out and starts down I.B. is our second option.

[davidbob]

It kept raining and Richland Creek kept rising - 3.75 feet when we launched and almost 4.0 at the take out (REAL close to perfect for mere mortals).  Trip report and maybe a short video of Cap'n Downstream and Tim Man running Richland Falls to follow. 

[canoe]

DB, can you correlate the airspace at putin, and gauge at takeout?The new putin gauge needs some calibrating. dale

[davidbob]

AD - It seems to me that the Internet gauge is calibrated now. Stewart said he checked the stick gauge at the campground bridge at noon and it was 3.5 or a little higher. The Internet gauge was reading 3.5-3.6 at noon. That seems about as calibrated as it gets.

FWIW - there was 13 inches of airspace at Moore bridge when we put in at 12:30 (that was the reading on the new stick gauge). The water had risen slowly from just under 16" at 10:30. At 2:30 when took out at the campground bridge the water level was just under 4 feet. That sounds consistent too, right? DB

[Marcell Jones]

Dale, the reading was 3.9 when we took out and at 12 and 36 on the new sight gauge at the put in.

Marcell.

[panicman]

The takeout stick read 4.3 when we took off at roughly 4:45. Did not check the stick at put in. Keep in mind that falling water was pumping in a bunch of water on our run.

[paddlinfool]

Has the landslide been cleared on Falling Water Road? I haven't been up there in awhile...

[davidbob]

Dale, the reading was 3.9 when we took out and at 12 and 36 on the new sight gauge at the put in.

Marcell.

Marcell and I were looking at the same gauge. He saw 36 and I saw 13. That will give you some idea what it was like all day in our boat yesterday.

That's not really true. On some of the busier rapids it was more like paddling a tandem open boat. We both made the moves we needed to make and nobody had to say a word. That was pretty cool.

I'd be interested in hearing from Maggie about the level of paddling coordination in the Shredder: a zen-like melding of two separate beings into a single precision instrument of whitewater virtuosity, or a Confluence Cluster%^$@ ?