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Comment on Exploring the Owyhee by Name that River and Raft Winners « Oregon and Idaho River Rafting

Name that River and Raft Winners « Oregon and Idaho River Rafting — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:32:05 +0000

[...] Our guides took an exploratory trip down it last spring, which you may have read about in the blog post by ECHO guide Tate Higgins. Next spring we are offering two trips down this true adventurer’s [...]

Comment on Exploring the Owyhee by Randaddy

Randaddy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:34:20 +0000

Well written Tater! I’m glad you’re enjoying life up there! I thought I’d check out Echo and I’m not surprised at all to find you’re writing during your summer break.

We do miss you on the Poudre though. I swam Garry pretty good the other day and thought of you.

Comment on Exploring the Owyhee by Rick

Rick — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:32:24 +0000

Tate- a GREAT recount of the trip. Thanks. You’re a welcome addition to the ECHO family. I was to have been there but for some real life drama would have been. You write well- I look forward to seeing more and maybe meeting you. I don’t hink I’m allowed back on the MF anytime soon though.
Stay safe.
Rick

Comment on Lake Creek Update – June 16, 2007 by Zach

Zach — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:52:39 +0000

I flew into Indian Creek today and hiked up to Lake Creek to see how the rapid looked at the lower flows. I saw two sweep boats, 5 rafts, and 8 driftboats run the rapid perfectly. The water was 2.36 ft.

It was fairly easy for rafts and the sweeps to pull right and miss the tree in the entrance. This seems like it will be the most difficult part of the rapid as the river drops.

The river is much slower below here than last week when the river was higher. Both sweeps went left of the three trees and most rafts went right of them. Both moves are easy. Left of the trees is shallow and nice for the sweep boat since the shallow rocks slow the it down. Neither sweep came even close to getting stuck.

Finally, all of the boats easily went right of the rootballs and trees. It’s shallow over there, but fine. There is plenty of water to go left of the rootballs, but there is a good amount of wood past the rootball that could make a left run dangerous.

My impression was that this rapid will continue to be navigable as the river drops towards 2 feet. We are launching our July 3rd trip from Boundary Creek.

Comment on Salmon River Snowpack Report by Zach

Zach — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:28:52 +0000

It’s so hard to say what the flows will be at the end of May because flows depends on spring rains, spring weather, and summer rains as much as snowpack. We can expect there to be plent of water for the Salmon Supreme since this week is usually around the peak of the snowmelt.

It’s so hard to guess what the water will be like on June 20th, but it seems like that would be the perfect time to go this year because you can be sure to start at Boundary Creek and have plenty of water even if we have a bad spring.

This will almost definitely be a low water year which means we’ll be starting more of our trips from Indian Creek and spend six days on the lower 75 miles. Even in low water years we’re able to run fun trips on the Middle Fork through August.

Comment on Salmon River Snowpack Report by davidbob

davidbob — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:02:00 +0000

looks like the snowpack is down to 67% of average now. What will that do to the Salmon Supreme trip? What does it look like the Salmon be like when permit season opens on June 20? Will this be a lower water year?

Thx – DBV

Comment on Guess the Camp Contest for 2007 by Zach

Zach — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:45:06 +0000

The contest is now over and thank you everyone that played. The camp is Survey, but we also accepted Woolard which is across the river and part of the picture. We have two sweep boats in Idaho, Toby and Tendoy. The sweep in the picture is Tendoy, which was named after Sacajawea’s nephew.

Comment on Impromptu Wedding on the Middle Fork by ECHO: The Latest Word » Blog Archive » Guess the Camp Contest for 2007

ECHO: The Latest Word » Blog Archive » Guess the Camp Contest for 2007 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:19:25 +0000

[...] We gave a head start to our current e-News subscribers and ECHO customers and so far only one person has won (the second prize) by guessing the camp. He remembers the camp well because he was part of an impromptu wedding that we had there two years ago. [...]

Comment on Apple Laptop Falls off Motorcycle and Lives by Zach

Zach — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:06:12 +0000

So I’ve been using this computer for the past year now. I had it hidden below my desk with a keyboard, mouse, and Cinema Display plugged into it running as dual monitors. We took the battery out because it was bent even though it still worked fine.

Last month I bought a Mac Pro so it’s now sitting in a box here at work.

Comment on ECHO Guides and Alumni Celebrate 35 Years by volkentoo

volkentoo — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:00:45 +0000

Thank you Dick, Joe and Sue for always making a “city girl” feel right at home with all you outdoorsmen and women. I can see why Tom always speaks so warmly of his ECHO days- what a wonderful group of people. I had a great time seeing old friends and making new ones. You sure know how to throw a party!
Mary Torres Volken