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#463697 - 10/30/08 08:30 AM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: hohbomb73]
banki Offline
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Loc: Montesano, WA
Originally Posted By: hohbomb73

Nah, make it $500 just to motivate you...
smile

That barely covers gas wink

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#463729 - 10/30/08 10:38 AM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: banki]
hohbomb73 Offline
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Then why don't you step up and offer more?

$500 for a run less than a hundred yards?? ...one gallon of gas ought to cover it.


(I'm not challenging anyone to DRIVE TO oxbow, that's easy...)
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#463847 - 10/30/08 05:14 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: hohbomb73]
banki Offline
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Gotta tow the boat to make it there plus probably going to have to buy another shoe when you tear the one off, so $500 to run oxbow......nah.

Maybe I'll offer more when the stock market recovers til then thats where my extra money is going.(Buy low sell high)

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#463855 - 10/30/08 05:29 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: banki]
Neal M Offline
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Registered: 12/13/99
Posts: 2785
Loc: Bainbridge Island and Sappho, ...
I could run oxbow smile In sols boat, no problemo!

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#463856 - 10/30/08 05:39 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Neal M]
Sol Offline
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Making that 90 degree turn on plane with the huge rollers below would be impossible going up or downstream.

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#463857 - 10/30/08 05:42 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Sol]
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Sounds like a challenge!!
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#463860 - 10/30/08 05:45 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Sol]
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Originally Posted By: Sol
Making that 90 degree turn on plane with the huge rollers below would be impossible going up or downstream.

Nah, just break up the run using the big pond on river right...

wink
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#463862 - 10/30/08 05:46 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Jerry Garcia]
Sol Offline
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If someone wants to try it I'll stand on the corner with my camcorder. I promise I won't put the footage on youtube. grin

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#463864 - 10/30/08 05:49 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Sol]
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I'll stand on the corner with $500...
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#463866 - 10/30/08 05:51 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: hohbomb73]
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I'll stand on the corner with a first aid kit...
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#463869 - 10/30/08 05:56 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: fish4brains]
Neal M Offline
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Registered: 12/13/99
Posts: 2785
Loc: Bainbridge Island and Sappho, ...
With all that support, I'll do it! Let me borrow your boat dude! smile

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#463876 - 10/30/08 06:07 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Neal M]
ColeyG Offline
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Registered: 02/08/07
Posts: 3098
Loc: AK
I am sure it could be done, but I have yet to see the boat and the driver in this part of the woods that could pull it off.

I got to see Conrad Scott of Scott pumps rip some AK rivers this spring and it was pretty mind bending to see what guys like that can do with the right machine.

On-sighting skinny channels in 4 inches of water at 50+ and making a class 3 rapid look like flat water for starters.

Here is some footage of the tame stuff from that outing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTyWmeO3388

The Oxbow would seem easier than quite a few of the sections in the lower river. Those jet boats run shallow, but they don't run in no water with a grate full of rocks.
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#463877 - 10/30/08 06:14 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Neal M]
Sol Offline
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As I recall you couldn't even row my Willie through there without almost putting it up on the beach.

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#463879 - 10/30/08 06:20 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: ColeyG]
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Originally Posted By: ColeyG


On-sighting

smile You must be a climber...



The problem with sledding the Oxbow isn't the water depth, it's the TWO 90deg turns within a couple hundred feet and the fact that there are HUGE boulders all the way up and down that you'd have to dodge.

Granted, at around 20,000 cfs that whole zone flattens out and covers all the rocks, ...there wouldn't be an S-turn to make, just trees to dodge.

I have floated it in a raft at near 20Kcfs and it's cake... other spots on the river aren't: try the dead end road @ above 16K cfs wink
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#463882 - 10/30/08 06:22 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: ColeyG]
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With regards to that Video...
It kinda makes me sick to see boats like that operating in a river in that capacity. Joyriding is stooopid!

I'd love to see the under water video of a school of fish when that boat goes by. Sportjets suck cause they are way too loud.

Sorry FR.





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#463887 - 10/30/08 06:39 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Sky-Guy]
ColeyG Offline
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Yeah I hear ya Ryley. I was actually on the river working on the day that group went by. Not the most serene setting to say the least.

That sort of thing, in this area, would seem to be pretty inappropriate. Running a sportjet for fun in the mud of of an alaskan river in the middle of nowhere is a different sort of thing though and I think it can be done responsibly with little impact to wildlife and other users in the area.
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#463890 - 10/30/08 06:50 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Sol]
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I thought that was a.n.g.i.e........ chain
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#463891 - 10/30/08 06:54 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: ColeyG]
Neal M Offline
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Registered: 12/13/99
Posts: 2785
Loc: Bainbridge Island and Sappho, ...
So I cut the right side a little close on the first chute and ground a little gravel. I was in fetal position as I run all rapids smile Who woulnd't be, rowing YOUR boat, with you in the front moaning and groaning smile

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#463897 - 10/30/08 07:09 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Neal M]
Sol Offline
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Registered: 12/19/03
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Loc: Poulsbo
lmao

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#463904 - 10/30/08 07:30 PM Re: sleds on the Hoh [Re: Sol]
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Hmm, I'd have to walk it and look at it! I've done some pretty stupid shiat with my sled.... Heck I beached it 3 weeks ago running something that was too shallow, busted my back on the seat box when it catipulted me!

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