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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Jun 23, 2010 - 07:46pm PT
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The Payette, especially the North Fork, runs hard & fast, even on a normal year.
It's kind of a record season(late weather) this year.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jun 23, 2010 - 07:48pm PT
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what the devil is that jutting water at 20 seconds in?
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Jun 23, 2010 - 07:48pm PT
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Film makers' ploy. or he crashed his Bronco. again.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Jun 23, 2010 - 08:32pm PT
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The Smith's Ferry to Banks stretch of North Fork Payette is 15 miles of almost constant Class V water. It is a test piece that you don't want to swim in.
A highway goes up one side of the river and an old railroad up the other. There is pretty much nothing but jagged rocks along both sides.
As Skully mentioned: the video is taken during very high water. Amazing how quickly those boats are moving.
A kayaker friend of mine named Rolf took a swim in that stretch at, a lower water level, a few years back. He had been down the river a few times, but was out of practice. After losing his kayak and swimming a while, he finally caught an eddy and pulled his battered and weary self out of the river.
As Rolf crawled up to the highway, Idaho kayaking legend Rob Lesser drove up and stopped.
Rob got out and walked up to Rolf and said: “what the hell happened to you?”
Rolf replied: “Lost my boat and took a big swim.”
Rob retorted, “no you didn’t. If you took a swim in this stretch of the Payette, you’d be dead.”
Rolf replied: “Fine! I’m dead! Can you help me find my boat?”
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jun 23, 2010 - 08:37pm PT
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Was it Lesser and Wasson that first ran that stretch, way back in the steam age?
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Jun 23, 2010 - 09:01pm PT
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Good story, Fritz! Some guys get ALL the best lines, eh?
Yeah, the North Fork is HIGH, man. The Melt is On, bigtime.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Jun 23, 2010 - 09:40pm PT
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Guido: From "Idaho Whitewater"---it was Banducci, Wasson, & Rick Frenald that "did the deed" in 1979. The first continuous descent of all 15 (Banducci writes 17) miles. Rob Lesser was the local boy who showed them many of the secrets of the river and had all the scary war stories. He passed on boating that day to take photos for Outside & Canoe mags.
I've known Rob Lesser a long time. He is still kayaking in his mid-60's.
Nice guy. When you talk with him: it doesn't seem to matter that he's boated the jaws of hell many times.
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Jun 23, 2010 - 11:38pm PT
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Oh
my
f*#king
god!
wow!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Jun 23, 2010 - 11:48pm PT
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wuzzy...do you ever work? RJ
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Jingy
Social climber
Nowhere
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Jun 24, 2010 - 12:11am PT
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ok.. one question....
How did they get that shot?
Guy riding the river.....
camera traveling along side.....
is there a road right off the river? (doubt it)
That was cool...
Thanks for the post...
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Jun 24, 2010 - 12:14am PT
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There IS a road along that section of river.
ID 55.
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Delhi Dog
Trad climber
Good Question...
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Jun 24, 2010 - 12:20am PT
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"How did they get that shot?"
My guess is they had a cable suspended and the camera rode along that.
Quite impressive...
the camera work is stellar, I checked out those other 'teasers' and they're all a trip.
...that is some big water with some wild standing waves...
Thanks for the share, hope I can see the movie when it comes out...
Cheers,
DD
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2010 - 01:02am PT
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A friend of mine Fred Coriell is one of the boaters. One summer he ran the North
fork 10 x in a row - in one day!! Hardcore. Of course not at those levels shown in the clips.
There was a big rainstorm 4+ inches, much fell on snow and voila!
JR - work is not what its cracked up to be. But yes I do.
Hope you are doing well!!!
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Cpt0bvi0u5
Trad climber
Merced CA
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Jun 24, 2010 - 04:39am PT
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Wow thats gnarly as hell! Looks like a great time!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jun 24, 2010 - 04:56am PT
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Big, but it seems to me I've seen steep stretches of the Fraser River in BC run bigger to the point where I remember thinking it couldn't be run at all - probably someone has though.
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Jun 24, 2010 - 09:46am PT
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nice one Tom, scary X 10 !
Doug
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2010 - 11:03am PT
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Doug, glad there is no slippery "log crossing" eh?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jun 24, 2010 - 11:22am PT
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Yeah it's scary for sure but it is also incredibly beautiful! Thanks for putting this up TFC.
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