Whitewater Rafting - Class 5 Rapid Fail in Idaho

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Uploaded by on Apr 30, 2009

Flows approx. 17,000cfs on 4-11-09. He should have scouted and maybe probably portaged. His buddy took a nasty swim..But everybody was OK.. We lined our boats that day as we though it was to high to run safely.

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  • they died?

  • No. dumping the raft is all part of rafting. It can happen.

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  • @kayakutah I have, though it was over 10 years ago in a kayak; around the left at high flow, around the right over the drop at low flow when it drops into a secondary channel. It's very pool/drop with quite a nice recovery pool after the spot where the raft flipped, as I recall. The one that scared me, frankly, was Duck blind at 2200 CFS because it really drives you hard into the right side. BTW, I didn't mean to suggest it is easy. I really need to learn to keep my opinions to myself!

  • @kayakutah Have you run Pair-a-dice/Pair-o-dice/Pair-o­f-dice?

  • I thought it was "Pair-A-Dice", and calling it class V seems a stretch.

  • That is Pair of dice Rapid. Ran it twice on either side of the portage. Ra n it with Olin Gardner....The Olin Gardner

  • I went rafting up on the upper animas in colorado and the water was 25 - 30 degrees!

  • I'd want to stare at that for a while before i tried it but...sure looks like a possible (but fliprisky) line maybe five feet right of his entry IF he'd been squared up to it AND had some serious forward momentum. Do folks run there?

  • Rather not be in an oar-frame

  • @qwsa1094 @snowyphil65 yeah this is the Murtaugh stretch of the snake river just up stream from the Hansen bridge near Twin Falls, ID

  • @caseyjones22 Oh yeah, that does look lethal! I meant the line just to the left of the big rock in the center looks like the place to be.

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