concrete put in richland

[Fish]

Worried about what the FS has to say? Who's going to tell them

Plenty of evidence here on this thread. I deduce that Mr. Head did it upstream of the green room with a bag of cement!!

Elementary my dear,
Fish

[Ryan Center]

I did it like this, I did it like that, I did it with a wiffle ball bat!

[okieboater]

Jeez, we need a couple days of good ole soaking rain!!!!!

and

Roger, I understand

dave

[Heath]

I did it like this, I did it like that, I did it with a wiffle ball bat!

so im on the run the cops got my gun, and wright about now its time to have some fun.

M.C. R.C

[ARzach]

I did it like this, I did it like that, I did it with a wiffle ball bat!

so im on the run the cops got my gun, and wright about now its time to have some fun.

M.C. R.C

This is just adding fuel to the fire, for the factions of the media that claim that white boys can't rap....

[Twindad]

OK, so I took off for a few years for kid-raising, and now you guys have gone and dammed up Richland!

Seriously, I never paid to much attention to the rapid names. I think I remember Cindy's Hole, Lower Screw-up, and Maytag. But which one is Roadblock? The only undercut I ever paid any attention to was the right side of LSU (if you screwed-up the boof). Pleased tell me what I should have been scared of!

Tom Lewis

[hdh]

The person that did it is the same person that bought alcohol for that kid on the Spring river( Micah Goodwin)..

[Twindad]

OK, found this thread on Roadblock:
http://forums.arkansascanoeclub.com/vie ... =1&t=11896" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Is the undercut where the paddler is putting the stick, or up against the rock in the 2nd pic?

[Fish]

Roadblock is a "new" rapid formed by floods in the upper part of the run. If you haven't been on Richland in a few years, you haven't seen it yet. Be heads up and don't count on concrete to save your butt.

[ckuntz]

Twindad,
Roadblock rapid isn't too complicated of a move and there are options to go left as well, but the approach can be tricky if you flip above. Have seen this happen to several persons. If you miss your roll or swimming out of an open boat the possibility of pinning or going under the upstream facing rock is a high possibility and the site of many close calls..
Chris

[anthony]

Climbers bolt in routes on boulders.
Mountain bikers shovel and dig the earth for their trails. There is a mentality among these sports that altering mother nature is ok as long as it makes the sport safer-fun. Why would someone not feel it's ok to do the same to a creek as climbers and mtb'ers do for their sport. Just saying that you should try to at least understand why someone would do this.

[Twindad]

The picture in ...
http://forums.arkansascanoeclub.com/vie ... =1&t=11896" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
looks like what I remember as "the end of a dogleg to the left at the bottom of a long rock garden." Above Richland Falls. And that recollection is from 1994.

But assuming this is a (relatively) new rapid, for people who haven't seen it: where exactly is (was?) the undercut? Under the boulder in the close-up shot (2nd pic)?

[bmartin]

Most of us want to feel we are challenging the wild when we paddle. All of us want to arrive at the take out alive. The top CIV-V paddlers that run things much riskier than road block will likely be on the side of keeping it as wild as possible, sans the trees that block the wild water. Others that are more conservative CIII-CIV types will likely appreciate the added safety at the expense of slightly taming the stream. Clearly there are different camps on this issue and I can appreciate the different perspectives and will continue to look forward to paddling with y'all irrespective of your concrete camp affiliation.

[SteveGabbard]

http://boatertalk.com/forum/BoaterTalk/1052296187/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nice. Some idiot posted a link to this thread on boatertalk. :roll:

[Roger]

2dad, second picture is undercut and it's underneath the middle of the rock. It comes in above the Green Rock Rapid. The boogie water that comes before the sieve is simply a boulder garden similar to Upper Confluence (before Devil's Fork) except maybe a bit longer. It empties into a small pool that has a decent flow.

As pointed out, be ready to catch the eddy (left is bigger) and then make plans.