Bad luck with the water Gods
It seems as though the dam operators have it out for me as of lately. Three different rivers in a row, I have driven great distances only to see much less water than I expected, or much lower than stated by the flows page. It started on the Big South July 6th. Long Draw reservoir was saying 220cfs and the graph looked like that was good to go at least for one more day. Andrew and I split 7am the next morning to get there with only 170cfs coming out when we arrived. Disappointing, but everything was still a blast once we got off of weird creek.
The next day we woke up early, ran the Narrows and headed to Bailey. Again, the graph said 550cfs when we checked that morning. We rallied straight there from Fort Collins and by the time we arrived only 350cfs greeted us.
Thinking there is no way my bad luck will continue this way, on Friday I went to go meet Jakub Nemec for an afternoon Lake Creek session. I have heard about people having the water turn way up on them while on this creek and saw the graph that looked more like a heart beat than a release schedule. Of course, Friday was the only day of the week that they didn’t turn the flows back up for the evening sessions! The flows were way too low for paralizer but everything else still went. The wood in Cauldron was a non-issue (and has since been removed) and the rest of the run was clean as can be.
I hope my luck changes so that I can continue what is turning out to be the “Tour of Colorado’s Classics.” Here are the pictures from Bailey and Lake Creek. Enjoy and SYOTR.
Paul Siratovich rounding the bend above SuperMax
Me hitting the manky boof on SuperMax
Me landing on the Pad in the run out
Jakub Nemec on Brains; Lake Creek
Me preparing for takeoff, Brains
Jakub and I got much more than a kiss on this one, Kiss Me, Lake Creek
