Tuesday, April 8, 2008

russell fork "off season"

The off season is on in Elkhorn City. Drew Austell and I made the trip yesterday for some high water action. The level was 2900 cfs (fall releases are 800). Tower and Fist were scary as hell, and when we got to Triple Drop we portaged the first one. This is Drew lining up for Second Drop.

Triple Drop is one of the most serious rapids on the Fork at high water. The bottom of Third Drop is nasty.
Me at Second Drop. All pics of me were taken by Drew.
Buried at Third Drop. The Grande performed well on the big water.
Calm before the storm at El Horrendo.
The storm.
The only thing sketchier than running the meat of Tower and El Ho at three grand is walking through this tunnel to get back to the put in (to do some more sketchy shit).

1 comments:

Cooper Lambla said...

FUCK that tunnel!!!