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May she now rest in peace.

Got to be the most heart-wrenching thing that can happen to a family. Finally, some closure.

Hard to imagine. Thanks for the update, Dave.

I'll walk that one, thanks.

Seems to me like they should use the excavating equipment they used to divert the water and throw a couple scoops of rocks in that sucker so this can't happen again.....

Lots of discussion on alterations to this rapid.

I am in favor of blocking off that river right area to keep boaters on the safer river left chute.

Many think the river should be left "natural" with no man made changes.


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sobering photo in the article of the SWR folks working on the recovery

Fill that sucker in.
There are almost no stretches of the river that haven't been altered by man to excess.
Between miners, railroads and land owners the river is as far from natural as any I have
seen out west. I have camped many weeks at the campground on river left and watched
the rapid at many levels. It has taken at least three lives and close calls on two more that I have heard of.
At no level would you ever want to run river right. This is the rock the girl was trapped under.

There is no way to run this. River left/center is an
open, no frills boogie water run to the pool below. The pool directly below it
we use as the put in to paddle to town for breakfast. I don't think it would alter any thing
except the actual rapid itself.
You can see the entrapment rock left of center (waterspray)
That's just my opinion.............