Randy Hodges wrote:
We launched at Boundry Creek and had 700 pounds of food and gear flown
into Indian Creek on our third day.
Just think what would have happened if each of the 3 rafts had carried
233 pounds of additional gear!
The upper part of the river was great. The low water (1.88 on launch
day) was hard on the rafts and one of our rafters got stuck multiple
times. That made for a long day and we did not make it to our
assigned camp that night.
Were there any consequences to not making camp? For instance, did you
have trouble finding a spot to camp because somebody was already in it?
Trail Flat is at mile 7, but if you camped there, were you fined for
camping in another spot with a hot spring?
It rained all day. We camped in a serious downpour that lasted all night.
Too bad it didn't rain *before* your trip, thus making Sulphur Slide easier.
Was the "rain all day" the typical kind of Idaho mist, or real rain?
The final class IV was on the Main. A rockslide caused a new rapid at
the mouth of Cramer Creek. It was a jumbled mess of rocks,
pour-overs, and holes. One hole would have, I believe, easily flipped
my 15 foot raft. There was a narrow line on the right that we all
followed that skirted the hole and grazed a room sized rock that we
all sucessfully followed.
A friend of mine ran this in a raft, instead of his IK, because he thought
he might flip in his IK. Unfortunately the commercial raft flipped anyway,
and he ended up swimming right into the rock (on the right, same as your
"room sized rock"?) that he was afraid of swimming into. Ironic.
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