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Title: Blanche River, Thurso
Post by: Francois Leclerc on May 19, 2016, 10:02:37 AM

RIVIÈRE BLANCHE in Thurso QC with the CdB's Bill Schlarb, Jim Forbes, Christian Gigault, Daniel Dubuc, Marc Gendron and François Leclerc. There's not a whole lot of footage on this river so I hope this gives an idea to people who have never done it. Enjoy.


https://vimeo.com/167271617 (https://vimeo.com/167271617)

Title: Re: Blanche River, Thurso
Post by: lafreniere.luc on May 19, 2016, 10:05:05 AM

Good looking logo! ;)

Never done this river, out of curiosity? What general level was this? Low, medium, high? I'm hoping low to medium-low considering how rocky a lot of the runs seem to be.

Title: Re: Blanche River, Thurso
Post by: Francois Leclerc on May 19, 2016, 03:29:31 PM

Medium - medium low. Supposedly it can be run all summer, even in low levels. Just a note of warning though, there are a couple of mandatory rough portages that are in my opinion, class 3-4.   ;)

Title: Re: Blanche River, Thurso
Post by: ChristianG on May 19, 2016, 05:35:21 PM

Hey, thanks for the slo-mo boof!

Three (two?) years ago it was a bit higher. Jaclin Dufresne has a few videos on his YouTube channel,

https://www.youtube.com/user/MrJaclinD/videos

The videos are themselves are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE0D5D3Nn4k

all the way through:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3uzoMk5Dg

--C.

Title: Re: Blanche River, Thurso
Post by: ChristianG on May 19, 2016, 07:11:12 PM

This one is a good demonstration of why nobody should paddle a Liquid Logic El Tippy:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3uzoMk5Dg

--C.

Title: Re: Blanche River, Thurso
Post by: JohnCyr on May 26, 2016, 08:16:33 AM

Yep. A Tad bit Lower than when the club ran it for the first time a couple years ago! I would consider this level as Low.

Great run though! :) Loved the video!