Sunday, March 30, 2008

Piedra 3-29-08

Notes from our March 29 Piedra trip

1) There is plenty of snowpack for the next couple of months.



2) Its scenic.



3) Downed trees, lots of them- 2 mandatory portages.



4) The Second Mudslide/Eye of the Needle rapid is pretty clean, but the landslide is very active and that could change. Russ runs a good line:



Link to video of me running Eye of the Needle: http://www.vimeo.com/839275


5) The downed bridge in no big deal. If you floated into it, it would be bad, but that's pretty hard to do unless you are blind.



Flows: We had about 1400 on the gauge, which translates into about 200 at the put-in and 1000 at the take-out early season.

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