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So wish I had different days off…..
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Yeah, I have friends also likely joining for the Main. They may continue to Spring Bar to add another day.
You wear clothes on the river? Weird
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I don't think I could make the dates work but just wanted to throw my name out just in case there's a slot and I could fit it in.
Long time international expedition raft guide, several seasons on both Middle and Main, but a long time ago. I drove a sweep boat for a season on the Middle in 2002, the last year I guided.
Sounds like an awesome trip! And yes, river trips are good for the soul.
i vote wmd rows the hog
Ill highside my ass off
thread needs sum
Do we full send all the way to Heller Bar? 315 miles, longer than the Grand Canyon.
How's everyone feel about a confirmation by Saturday 4/16? Don't wanna be booking shuttles much before then as there may not be any available.
Zoom meeting shortly after to discuss group gear, meals, and logistics?
Yeah agreed. Sorry folks, I've been slacking. Shit has been tough in the personal life department, so I'm just trying to keep things together for the time being.
Final confirmation before 4/16 works for me. Stoked to shit in that new, fancy groover of yours.
I'll get a 2022 Middle Fork BBI thread together here soon.
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fancy grover?
it plays mr washington while you poops or cleans and packs itself
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no fkn peeers
is bunny goin?
hes a local with mad time on the sticks
ya knows he rowed the big ditch
Got me a Selway. No mo eco-safe fuckery.
Might have to make a cocktail in it the night before first use.
good chattin and settin in motion the planning of the doing of the things
i was told thered be stickers
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and i fergets mr toasters a culinary ringer and will help every night in that reguard
and are we gonna shuttle any rigs to the confluence for resupply capabilities?
You guys still turning the corner? I've got a June 15 MFS launch and trying to prognosticate whether flows will be too high for our group...
That’s the plan, unless we’re looking at 6’.
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We canceled our 6/15 launch if anyone wants to try and snag it.
tBatt, you guys still going? The forecast looks to be right at 6' for the 5th, big rocking water!
We did 4.5' many years ago, and it wasn't insane but it was still big water, 6.5 would be pretty hudge.
Somebody died near Boundary Creek last week.
BOISE—A Washington man is dead after a boating accident on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Custer County.
Robert Gray, 63, of Mill Creek, Washington, was floating the river on the afternoon of May 24 “when his raft struck a log jam, throwing him into the water,” according to a news release from the Custer County Sheriff’s Office.
The accident took place around 2:30 p.m. near the Boundary Creek boat launch, northwest of Stanley.
“Robert Gray, tired and cold, could not self-rescue and was carried away by the swift current,” the release said.
According to the release, the river was running high with a water temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The sheriff’s office was notified of the incident around 7 p.m. that evening by the victim’s family.
Around noon Wednesday, Custer County Search and Rescue located a body matching Gray’s description by helicopter, submerged in a log jam downstream from Boundary Creek, the release said. As of last week, Gray’s body was still in the river, as rescuers have determined the river is currently too dangerous for retrieval, the release said. 
6' gets pretty sporty.
My 1st time down the MF was 1991ish and a self support kayak trip (back when there were pit toilets) at 6+' with our group launching on Marsh Creek. I barely had a roll at that point.
Marsh Creek was a blur with several large snow bridges that had recently collapsed into the creek from avalanches all winter crossing the creek. River wide log blockage was a real threat but all went well. I was pretty stressed about the Impassable canyon when I should have been stressed about the 25 miles from Boundary to Indian Creek. Turns out most of the lower "Big" rapids were washed out and hardly there. Also I never noticed it on that trip but Ski Jump is a real barn burner at high water.
Oh well, my sister and BIL are arriving on 6/15 so we will float something around here.
sumstimes youre the Louisville sluggers
sumstimes youre the ball
sumtimes it all comes togather........
windsheilds n bugs
thanks for runnin the ligistics and the invite
ill be back on that water someday
hopefully with the latest god as a copirate
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my plan b is a week outta dutch john a b c on the green
try n score pugmire, red creek or treetops a couple nights, then float down into browns park
camp at boblandia or swallow and down to crook
maybe a poopfish day on the gorge
hearin a little buzz about
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bugs
#asgoodasdryflygits
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I was also one of the bailers. Not only a lot of water but a lot of wood moving around - Rangers reported some groups encountering riverwide trees. If we were a group that was familiar with the run and each other it would have been more on the bubble, but with a mixed group and no experience on the MF over 3' or so it was just too many red flags.
Sorry to hear the trip washed out. That's a bummer.
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Yeah, too bad, but nature doesn't give a shit about our plans. Things were setting up pretty well until things turned cold and wet - Salmon drainage is looking at over 200% annual average snowpack for May 30 and a steady warm-up looks to point peak flows right at our scheduled launch date. And lots of reports of post-wildfire wood moving around.
Bummer for all of you, sorry to hear about the high water. I've been skunked a lot but it's usually just day trips as the water gets too high around here multiple times a year and you gotta walk away with your tail between your legs. It's a whole other thing when you've been anticipating it for a while. You all made the right call, it's the worst when a trip goes sideways and you're out in the middle of nowhere.
I have some pics from flyovers and it seems that is not if you would have to portage at some point, but how many times. Lots a lumber in the river right now.
Kind of...I got them second hand, not from the photographer. But, I think they'll start popping up here as one already did.
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Buddy just dropped his middle fork for a main. And he's competent. 4 ditch trips. I'd go for it but not with custies.
Yeah. We're making moves for cataract instead.