Has anybody run Granite this season (2016) yet? I was wondering how bad the wood situation is, especially from the canyon on down.

Has anyone run Sheep Creek yet this year? I am planning to do Roman Dial's "Independent Sheep" route in a few weeks and was wondering what news folks might have on wood in Sheep Creek from the put in near Crossover Lake to the takeout. thanks.

My Alpacka Yak does not have the cargo fly, but I float with a guy who had his boat retrofitted with one, and I have now observed his boat so equipped for two seasons on both single day and multi-day trips in a variety of conditions. On long trips, his boat is more stable due to his being able to re...

Thanks for working on this list, John. It is helpful.

A group of four, including one whitewater novice, hiked into Dickey Lake on June 9th from Tangle Lakes. We camped on the north side of the lake, then blew up our boats in the morning and dragged our gear across the ice to a 20 foot lead on the south shore. (In our dry suits and PFDs of course!) We t...

Anybody run Moose Creek yet in 2013? Are there many sweepers after last year's late floods?

Is anyone familiar with the stretch of the Gulkana River near Dickey Lake? At least one published source states that the Gulkana River "abruptly" drops into a short Class III-IV rapids (http://www.gorp.com/parks-guide/travel-ta-gulkana-national-wild-river-sidwcmdev_068879.html) 3 miles after exiting...

Does anyone have any information regarding the Matanuska downstream of Granite Creek? It might be open to the Old Glenn Highway bridge. It still looks totally bridged upstream from Granite at the big bar between Kings River and Granite Creek. Still, it would be a nice mellow start to the season to f...

The recently shot video I referred to above was just a short section posted at an anti-Watana dam site. I have now tracked down the original video. It really is Devils Canyon, but I do not see how a packrafter could do what these kayakers did, especially punching through the tops of big waves just b...

"Wow!" is right. This is a very, very intriguing innovation. This might be to packrafts what sidecuts were to dowhill skis. Other than improving ones paddling skills and honing ones judgement, reducing the volume and mass of gear attached to tops of the tubes seems the best way to reduce the number ...

But it's just begging for the first packraft descent.... I have seen a recently shot video of two kayakers in a canyon on the Big Su. At first I thought a really good packrafter could make some of the same run. The location of the shoot seemed to resemble the location from which the grainy black an...

Thank you, Mark. I would appreciate that.

Would anyone like to provide some first hand knowledge of running the big Oshetna River? I have never been in that drainage but have heard a lot of good things about it. I have reviewed the Wilderness Classic reports on the Eureka-Talkeetna route but would like more detailed information on what runn...

Any word on your rafts? Jschu and I are likely running the lower Chickaloon to Kings River tomorrow. Should we be on the look out?

DirtDevil, Have you tested your packraft as bath tub idea yet? On a long trip, a bath would be great. It would take a lot of fuel to heat the water though... . I was just talking to a neighbor yesterday about the concrete tub someone built at a hot spring in Paradise Valley in the Sierras years ago....