Bill,

Thanks for the feed back. I'll let you know how it went.

So following the camera question, I'll be taking both the Pentex WP1 and
Olympus 740 with housing on this trip, so will

"Bill Tuthill" wrote in message ...
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.