This is how your name and profile photo will appear on Panoramio if you connect this Google+ account.
You cannot switch to a different account later.
Learn more.
What an absolutely fantastic series you've provided us! Am currently setting up for a launch from Hammer Creek 3 July, and keeping an eye on the flows seriously. Slide is recognized as a very bad place to be at over 20,000 cfs, and judging from the USGS/NOAA data, that in fact may be where we are at that time. So clearly it may be time to start building alternate itineraries. Thanks Again,
I was killing time on a cold day in late December, I parked in the levee parking lot to take a nap and saw this handsome fellow paddling around with his mate. He was nice enough to let me take hs picture several times, but this is the one that turned out the best.
One of the things that makes the slide such a nasty rapid is not only the fact that at high water you're riding thousands of gallons of water at high speed, but the hydraulic pressure creates huge boiling eddies which charge and surge laterally every few seconds. This picture shows the large boiling eddy in the background, and in the foreground, one of these surges breaking across into the main current of the river which is in the lower right corner of the picture. The camera doesn't do justice to the size of the water here. I would estimate the boiling eddy in the enter of the frame to be around 5' high, with the breaking wave in the foreground around 3-4' high. The main current in the rapid was probably moving at speeds somewhere in the mid teens (MPH). This picture is taken from the Western bank of the river at around 89,000 CFS on the whitebird gauge in 2003.
We hiked in over land to take this picture of the slide in its true class V form in Early June 2003. USGS hydrograph data on the whitebird gauge was approximately at 89,000 CFS the day this picture was taken. Note the size of the pile of the pillow of water as compared to my wife standing on the rock in the left of the frame.
Loading…
An Idaho native who seeks out places less traveled.
hornsales's conversations
That day you would have needed one just to get out your driveway if you didn't plow!
What an absolutely fantastic series you've provided us! Am currently setting up for a launch from Hammer Creek 3 July, and keeping an eye on the flows seriously. Slide is recognized as a very bad place to be at over 20,000 cfs, and judging from the USGS/NOAA data, that in fact may be where we are at that time. So clearly it may be time to start building alternate itineraries. Thanks Again,
RSW
A spring day provided me the opportunity to catch this rainbow from my back patio.
I was killing time on a cold day in late December, I parked in the levee parking lot to take a nap and saw this handsome fellow paddling around with his mate. He was nice enough to let me take hs picture several times, but this is the one that turned out the best.
One of the things that makes the slide such a nasty rapid is not only the fact that at high water you're riding thousands of gallons of water at high speed, but the hydraulic pressure creates huge boiling eddies which charge and surge laterally every few seconds. This picture shows the large boiling eddy in the background, and in the foreground, one of these surges breaking across into the main current of the river which is in the lower right corner of the picture. The camera doesn't do justice to the size of the water here. I would estimate the boiling eddy in the enter of the frame to be around 5' high, with the breaking wave in the foreground around 3-4' high. The main current in the rapid was probably moving at speeds somewhere in the mid teens (MPH). This picture is taken from the Western bank of the river at around 89,000 CFS on the whitebird gauge in 2003.
We hiked in over land to take this picture of the slide in its true class V form in Early June 2003. USGS hydrograph data on the whitebird gauge was approximately at 89,000 CFS the day this picture was taken. Note the size of the pile of the pillow of water as compared to my wife standing on the rock in the left of the frame.