Pit Falls- Pit River- Big drop in a raft
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@trwent It's because the Pit doesn't get boatable flow very often. American Whitewater has convinced PG&E recently to schedule boatable flows. Ghost-boating or roping your raft down the side of the falls is very easy, but it's much more fun to drop it.
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There's another video available somewhere, possibly Vimeo, of some guys from Tennessee dropping the 40ft fall on the other side of these falls that's usually reserved for kayakers. If you go to Vimeo and search for "Pitt River", there's a compilation of raft, kayak and cataraft drops over the span of the falls - two raft drops on the 20ft slide, a cataraft on the 40fter, and kayak drops on the slide, the big drop and the 10ft sneak route around the far left side.
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I went rafting once, I bounced of the raft at a rapid called "Bumpy Lane"... lol
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I have always wondered why the Pit river is not run commercially. Never has been. Now I know why.
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I would have laughed if that raft deflated! Why run that, boredom?
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Awsome.
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Isn't that just a really steep slide, though? I mean, it isn't vertical. If it were, I doubt they would have been able to run it cleanly. I mean, no disrespect, I've never run a 20 footer, but it isn't a drop, it is more of a slide, a super steep one, but still a slide.
wormocious 2 years ago
Yes, the line shown in the video is a slide, but i consider any rapid a "drop" if the river goes down, as usually occurs in rapids. This line is not technical and required very little skill. I posted the video because it is entertaining not to show how epic i am brah! Happy paddling!
sailingbari 2 years ago
Right on, I wasn't hating, just saying. I just think of drops as falls, and rapids as rapids, but apples are apples, right. Definitely entertaining, definitions aside.
wormocious 2 years ago
look at some of my other videos for "drops" or free falls in kayaks. Dont have any raft free falls that i remember, those landings are a bit hard on the back. The line shown in the Pit video does have a free fall had we been 5 feet further left at teh bottom. Or there is the "Plunge line" which is closer to 30 foot free fall, but i just take photos of that line :)
sailingbari 2 years ago