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Hell's Canyon on the Snake River (OR/ID) - August 8-10, 2002 - 32 Miles

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Trip Itinerary:
Day 	Camp 			Bank 	River Mile (RM) 
Put-in	Below HC Dam,OR 	Left	0.0
1	Oregon Hole 		Left	9.3
2	Two Corral Creek	Left	24.8
Takeout	Pittsburg Landing	Right	32.1	

Camping at Copperfield (OR) (maintained by Idaho Power) along Pine Creek


Gear and boats strewn across the Hell's Canyon Creek Put-in ramp, a venerable BEWET tradition


Finally on the water at 12:15pm. If Bruce hadn't just pushed Phill out it would have been even longer!


Entrance to Wild Sheep Rapid (RM 5.8)


Chris thru Wild Sheep


Bruce thru Wild Sheep


Tyler thru Wild Sheep


Bryce thru Wild Sheep and I took off paddle chasing...


Bill in Wild Sheep2


Jeff in Wild Sheep2 (I'm on river right taking the pictures you saw above...)


Dave in Wild Sheep2


Phill in Wild Sheep2


Scouting Granite Rapids (RM 7.8)


And the solitude is broken by one of the all too many jet boats we had to deal with. How can this be called Wild and Scenic?


Bryce in Granite2


Chris in Granite2


Dave in Granite2


Jeff in Granite2


Phill in Granite2


Tyler in Granite2


Twilight at Oregon Hole camp


Trip leader Bruce cooking breakfast at Oregon Hole. Thanks for organizing the trip!


Looking upstream as we depart from Oregon Hole


Floating serenely...


I'm thinking it's time to put my non-waterproof digital camera away and put my hands back on the oars!


Bruce and Chanson thru Waterspout


Phill and Lori thru Waterspout


Dave, Paul and Jeannie thru Waterspout


Jeff and Bryce thru Waterspout trailing the IK


Tyler thru Waterspout


Lunch stop to also inspect Indian petroglyphs (Johnson Bar water telemetry station across river - RM 17.1)


Jetboats occupy one of the primo sites at Pine Bar - RM 19.5 Do they have permits? Unknown. Same thing at Salt Creek RM 24.4


Two Corrals2


At Two Corral Creek camp - during the evening the water went from 8,000 CFS to 18,000 (~4 ft.) and we tied the boats up high.
In the morning, it was back to 8,000 CFS and we were beached!


New BEWET tradition - 2/3 of the group takes off from Two Corral Creek camp, while the others remain for a later departure...


Stopping at the Kirkwood Historic Ranch


Chris mulls over the historic significance of the Sterling bunkhouse (now a museum)


Inside, Jeff inspects the memorabilia


Lunch2


Mexican Hat2


Mexican Hat 22


Petroglyphs2


Phill and Lori2


Bruce and Chanson2


The lower stretches are more open, flatter and hotter!


Hard to miss the Pittsburg Landing Take-out


Climbing towards the Pittsburg Saddle and the road home ...


Idaho Power Flows below Hells Canyon Dam (surely there's a logic to the fluctuations?...)


Gage Height (each increment equals about 8")


In case you were wondering who did the vehicle shuttle for us, it was Hells Canyon Shuttle (aka. Scotty's), a mile or so upstream of the Copperfield camping area at Oxbow, OR


    Credits:
  1. U.O.N., Olympus D-520Zoom Digital Photography by William F. Smith (2.0 MP, 1600x1200, 3X optical 38-114mm)
  2. Hewlett Packard C618 Digital Photography by Bruce or Chanson Kinney (2.0 MP, 1600x1200, 3X optical)

Last Update 14-Jun-03