VTR No. 21: Middle Fork of the Salmon River at 6 Feet
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- This trip launched from Indian Creek on June 7, 2022.
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You are the man for putting up all of this content, we love it and keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
Good advice great run. I would ride in your boat and I can't say that about many people. The Salmon river sure is a special place.
Thanks for posting these great videos.
I guided for 11 years on the Middle Fork, and just wanted to add this comment in case it might help someone out. The rapid House of Rocks at high water is one of the more dangerous ones on the lower end. It has some huge, boat-eating holes. It isn't technically difficult, but there are some weird currents, and you have to be decisive and pull the oars hard to avoid the holes. I got a bit lazy one time doing the left shot and almost flipped an 18-foot gear boat. The feeling of that heavy boat getting sucked backward by the reversal is not one that I will forget!
Nicely done! I've only been once and that was in August at 2.7 - this is a different planet. Great, informative video from a beautiful place. Thanks!
thanks for posting, Zach!
Thanks. Very helpful.
Great vid. I joined a June trip in 2006 and the gauge was at 6'. It felt very similar to your description. It was easier than expected but, the river was really moving fast and with a lack of eddies any flips or troubles would have been a pain. I wish the private boater lottery wasn't so impossible to score permits
I think the permit runs start on the 20th of June.
What is the weather typically like there in early June?
Great video I really enjoyed watching it at 6 feet we’ve done the middle fork at least 7×3 1/2 is beautiful but it’s nice to see what it looks like at Highwater thank you so much
Never did that one, thanks. Great scenery. Paddle assist is the way to go!
Above 7.5 is when ski jump gets the meanest. It becomes a river wide crashing claw that crashes randomly and the right line vanishes. Corkscrew at those 8foot + flows creates an insane whirlpool looking thing forming from the 2 laterals. The right pushes into the left and the left gives water back to the right lateral again.
Great Video Zach. Something I constantly do at high water is STAY ON THE INSIDE EDGE OF ALL BENDS where there is less water and power. I can always choose to move out from that inside edge if necessary but find it near impossible to try and get inside when I have drifted too far into the main current. I’d rather smash through some willows in the slower water than get too far into the current. Also, I have found catching camp eddies sometimes challenging at high water on the MF. Coordinating with the group who will go in first and how to tie your boat up quickly and make room in the “eddy” for those that follow, and also how to safely catch boats in the eddy. Missing camp sux.
We call that “cutting the c”
Sweet trip!! Thanks for the footage and commentary💪😎🤙
This is such a well made video! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I believe you on the waves. The biggest thing I noticed going through like Jack's canyon when you are floating it it feels like cliffs coming up against you. The GoPro video made it look like a rocky hills. So it definitely shows in comparison that's a GoPro does not do the waves Justice.
Looks like a sweet trip! Just curious how you handle filming on your GoPro since the battery life is only about an hour and a half per battery. Do you have the camera recording the whole day on the river and switch out batteries? Or do you just record the big rapids? Curious to know as I’m doing the main salmon this July and im unsure of how I’m gonna get all the pics/videos without having my camera die before the fun stuff
We did low water in the first week in April, my first time in my own kayak, loved the trip.
We launched at 5' at Boundary this year. The difficult part was eddying out to scout. I failed to eddy at Velvet and the sneak left side was not possible. Punched it and made it! Nice video thanks!
Excellent videos, thanks for posting your views / perspective. Have been rafting the section from North Fork to Corn Creek, and find your demonstration and discussion helpful with some of the rapids there, too. What kind of video camera do you use? Would like to improve on what we have, yours looks nice! Thanks!
Great way to tell the importance of how fast the water is. Never been down at this flow but I could see how it would be hard to just make it shore where your camping the night. So trying to get a flipped raft to shore or flipping one with gear would be difficult at best. Another thing is the rapids are way bigger when in person than videos so 6 feet 7 feet you better have a good crew and very solid yourself.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the lines - great job!
Thanks!
great video Z!
Thanks!
Zach. Great video as always. What PFD are you using? Thanks.
It’s a Palm Nevis.
I built trails in there in 2001 with the MCC.I actually didn't hear about 9/11 until 9/14 because we were working in the woods.
I had a permit for the same day! We opted to cancel. I wish we would have done it. How was the weather?
Great weather
We're you using downstream pulling move instead of pushing to keep the customers from hitting the waves first or you just wanted maximum power?
Maximum power
What kind of mount and camera did you use to film this?
A handle bar mount for a bike attached to a paddle
i broke an oar , Carlisle, in Rubber rapids...no rocks but the difference in water current grabbed my oar and just bent it.
What oar locks?
@@GearGarageTV this happened about 45 years ago...none of our group had heard of pins and clips locks. we had oarlocks from NRS and at that time i don't think they sold the
wider horn style locks. the oar i broke broke about 1 to 2 feet outside of the oarlock. you'd think it would break at the oarlock!! i had 16mm film of it breaking and showed it
to NRS because they couldn't believe my skinny arms had that much strength. they replaced it.
wow. what's your video sources.
beautiful
GoPro 10
I prefer a stout wood oar😊
Cool
Вроде всё просто... Но не каждому по силам такое управление...
Saved by the mute button.
Not knowing the river: the water was clearly rising the entire time.
The level was consistent. There are a lot of side creeks so the flow increases as you go downstream.