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CdB Whitewater Paddling Club Discussions => Paddling => Topic started by: Larry W on April 16, 2015, 10:56:36 PM
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Hi
As a part of Mackfest we are planning to do the Upper Skootamata near Flinton ...
Carpool --- Eagleson Park and Ride @ 8:30 am
or in Flinton approximately 10:30 am
http://mackfest.ca/rivers/upperskootamatta.aspx (http://mackfest.ca/rivers/upperskootamatta.aspx)
Should provide you with enough information ...
Larry
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Cool, never did,
I will be at Eagleson for 8:30
They write on the site '12 - 17 cms is a fun, low runnable level; Higher is even better; It has been run at flows over 40 cms. ``
and I the flowrate is around 20 cms and going down, look good!
http://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/report/report_e.html?type=realTime&stn=02HL004
Daniel
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I'll meet you guys in Flinton at 10:30.
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I will meet you guys in flinton as well.
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Going see you guys at Eagleson at 8:30
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I'm carpooling with Jon and will therefore meet you all in Flinton.
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I am on call this weekend plus lab shifts and bugs to fix and ....
See you all next weekend.
Jim,
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The river is calling... :P
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Stuck in town Saturday. Final exam to watch...
Would be up for something Sunday though.
--C.
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Francois me and a lot will be there Sunday to, you could text me if you come
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That was a fun section of the Skootamata that nobody in the group had done before.
By the numbers:
Gauge: 18 cms
UV index: 6 or higher
Temps: 16 degrees
Participants: 13 ... or somewhere around there,I only have 10 fingers
Number of swims: 5
Cars in the ditch: 1
Although W.O. offers a good Riverpwicki providing enough details to get to the put-in and take-out, I take river descriptions with a grain of salt. I wouldn't agree with W.O. stating the river is suitable for novices, since at Spring levels novice paddlers would have troubles on this Class III/IV river.
Simpson chute/canyon lived up to the description. The gradient was a bit steeper than I had expected and few in the group discovered that staying upright and in the boat is a better way of running the canyon ... or it turns into a rather long swim and a hike to the bottom to the awaiting pool to collect equipment.
It is a short section of river with more than 1 access point if one wants to run laps on the canyon section.
Several participants remarked that they would come again so this section of the Skootamata got added to the list of good rivers to run in the Spring.