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brent
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Posted: Feb 21, 2007 Post Subject: S Yuba, 49-bridgeport hazard
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| We did the run at 5.4 and noted that the rapid sometimes referred to as the cattle chute seemed different- narrower. The next day at a flow of 4.9 the change presented itself. There is now a siphon in the chute. It definitely wanted to draw the nose of the boat in, but I was insufficiently curious to see whether the boat would actually fit. This is the rapid which is boofed far right at higher flows and run in a narrow slot almost directly right to left at low flows. The main current flows through a left channel which is rarely run because of piton rocks. The rapid is ~3/4 of the way through the gorge above ski-jump.
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brent
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| Posted: Mar 13, 2007 |
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| Oops! A little dislexic. I meant to say left to right through the slot.
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Ian Buckley
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Yeah we walked this one left both days this weekend. At these current low (450-500) flows that new sieve is the final nail in the coffin of wheelchair maneuvers through that righthand slot.
Seemed like another rapid in the same area had changed: starting right you have a choice of a very unlikely looking 6 foot boof slot in the center or going all the way left and making a right turn against the left wall....seems like there's been a small rock fall on the left, what was clean is now really chunky but still goes.
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