Low Water Green Photos!

November 3, 2005

Photos

With no water in the Green, Clay and I decided to
hike in and check out the narrows with no release water. The hike-in is
long and steep, but it was definitely good to see the rocks that form
such awesome rapids! We hiked upstream from Sunshine to Boof or Consequence.
Sunshine was very impressive–the left line looked terrifying, Rapid Transit
was impressive with the cave going all the way through on the left. It’s
cool to see that the Launch pad off Gorilla is really a huge chockstone,
and there’s more junk in the landing pool than I expected. The Notch is
WAY undercut on the right and Pencil Sharpener has a lot of junk rocks
throughout. Next up was Chief, which landed on a rock that looked exactly
like I hoped it WOULDN’T. After Backender, we saw Go Left…it wasn’t
pretty. The rock in the middle jutted WAY up and we were really disturbed
to see a log bridging the left channel deep. This could definitely ruin
someone’s day, so we pulled it out. This was definitely an interesting
day, and I learned a lot. I’m psyched for practice water tommorow (I need
it!), and then the big race on Saturday!!!

Live from Asheville,

Stephen Wright