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Sauk River (WA) - May 24-25, 2008

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Construction is finally underway on new put-in bridge2


Departing in the Memorial weekend sunshine


Looking toward Whitechuck confluence


Mild attempt at surfing thru confluence2


Verification picture2


Looking upstream at bridge remains


Confluence beach


Looking downstream at first island rapids


Whitechuck zoom in


Whitechuck Mtn.


Essential Eddy #1 stop


Jumbo Mtn.


Rapids stretch above Alligator


Jaws entrance


Al into Jaws


Lower part of Jaws2


Wonder what's downstream of this nice surfing wave?2


Big waves in Jaws today2


Jaws sequence2


Al launches from earlier photo vantage spot


Al thru Jaws #1


Al thru Jaws #2


Al thru Jaws #3


Al thru Jaws #4


Behind Demon Seed. Today's heat will push up the flow enough tomorrow to cover it


Below Jaws


Whitechuck from Whirlpool stop


Looking upstream at what used to be Whirlpool


Lunch stop below Whirlpool


Enjoying the sunshine on the lower part...


Below Clear Creek channel split


Below Clear Creek channel split #2


New downed tree at Backman takeout (newly gravelled also). Where's Al's boat? After a no-fault my fault bumping incident, he took about about 100 feet downstream


Morning view of Whitehorse Mtn. from motel room


Whitehorse Mtn. closeup


Morning breakfast stop at Skidders. Not sure why the car is TP'ed2


Pictures of people taking pictures...


We stopped below this rapid to top off the boats. Went kinda limp after having let some air out in yesterday afternoon heat, then putting them back in cold water


Below Jaws. Demon Seed is covered today at the higher flows


Below Jaws


Looking back at Pugh Mtn.


Lunch stop below Popeye


Below lunch stop


Bedal Mtn. in the distance


Above takeout hazard


Aforemention tree hazard


Al churns thru the main part with the pocket chain saw


Main part is sawn thru


Tree floats downstream


Smilin' Al. Wonder if the water's cold?


Taking care of part 2 before floating down to takeout


USGS Flow - 05/24/2008 12:00 6.25 9,560 CFS
05/25/2008 12:00 6.88 12,400 CFS


    Credits:
  1. Olympus Stylus 770SW Digital Photography by William F. Smith (7.1 MP, 2304x1728 SQ1, 3X optical 38-114mm)
  2. Olympus C-5000 Digital Photography by Al Mickelson (5.0 MP, 2560x1920, 3X optical 38-114mm)

Last Update 29-May-08