krueger wrote:

Am leaving for the Rogue end of the week. Rafts and us in an OC2 , Dagger
Dimension, and our first time. My questions:

I'm a bow paddler recovering from wrist tendentious and don't have much
strength yet. My sweetie in the stern is a great tandem partner and has
adapted wonderfully to my issues. He was able to get us down to Indian
Creek, MF Salmon, last year at 1.9ft @830 cfs without a problem and from
there on I paddled every other day half days without a problem. I will have
two other people who can spell me, one a 13 yr with no paddling skill to
speak of, the other paddled bow for half of the Main Salmon at 1000cfs. It
was her first time in a ww canoe and did great. Currently the Rogue is at
2900cfs at Grants Pass. Am I asking for trouble and should go sit in a raft
for the trip?? I have heard one opinion that the Pigeon Pt. run on the
Trinity River is about the same difficulty. True / false.

The Rogue has some rapids that are as difficult as some Pigeon Pt. rapids,
but most of the river is easy and relaxing class 2, especially in a canoe,
which is easy to get going with speed (unlike a raft into the wind).

Another facet of the Rogue is that Glen Wooldridge blew up many rapids
with dynamite back in the 1950s, so there is a clear and easy route thru
everything for even a wood-bottom drift boat. Point'n'go, basically.
Whereas Pigeon Pt. has rock gardens and mandatory last-second moves.