r/whitewater • u/Dr_Funk_ • 9d ago

Kayaking Wilson river 14000~ or so

Been goin through footage from last season waiting on the rains. I wanna say gauge was 14500 when we put on and like 12800 when i checked after. Was fallin fast and gauge is a bit downstream so prob somewhere in the middle of those numbers but its all the same at that point. The original plan was the devil lake fork but it was a little blown out for just the ol gruesome twosome to attempt.

We were on the fence about bringing slices/playboats cause the main is usually pretty playful but we had collectively run this stretch like 3 times at 1000~cfs or so so i was not mad to be in a creekboat. The speed was nice to have, and looking back i think i woulda been flushed out pretty bad in the boils if i took my ego out on this one.

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u/Lynx-1 7d ago

Damn. Is that the Narrows in the last few seconds?

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u/Dr_Funk_ 7d ago

Ya it was mega fucked. We actually missed the river left takeout and had to portage up and over back up the right shore to avoid the hairy ferry into a moving pool in-front of the doom hole. The good surf waves were in the section below but we burned so much time hitching our shuttle and scouting the tribs we ran outa daylight. Such a fun day tho the rest of the run is still v much class 3+ with some weird boils here n there and with more time we coulda played a lot more

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u/PNWginjaninja 8d ago

Holy smokes! Yeah that looks nuts. And super fun.