That barely covers gas

Then why don't you step up and offer more?

$500 for a run less than a hundred yards?? ...one gallon of gas ought to cover it.


(I'm not challenging anyone to DRIVE TO oxbow, that's easy...)

Gotta tow the boat to make it there plus probably going to have to buy another shoe when you tear the one off, so $500 to run oxbow......nah.

Maybe I'll offer more when the stock market recovers til then thats where my extra money is going.(Buy low sell high)

I could run oxbow In sols boat, no problemo!

Making that 90 degree turn on plane with the huge rollers below would be impossible going up or downstream.

Sounds like a challenge!!

Nah, just break up the run using the big pond on river right...

If someone wants to try it I'll stand on the corner with my camcorder. I promise I won't put the footage on youtube.

I'll stand on the corner with $500...

I'll stand on the corner with a first aid kit...

With all that support, I'll do it! Let me borrow your boat dude!

I am sure it could be done, but I have yet to see the boat and the driver in this part of the woods that could pull it off.

I got to see Conrad Scott of Scott pumps rip some AK rivers this spring and it was pretty mind bending to see what guys like that can do with the right machine.

On-sighting skinny channels in 4 inches of water at 50+ and making a class 3 rapid look like flat water for starters.

Here is some footage of the tame stuff from that outing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTyWmeO3388

The Oxbow would seem easier than quite a few of the sections in the lower river. Those jet boats run shallow, but they don't run in no water with a grate full of rocks.

As I recall you couldn't even row my Willie through there without almost putting it up on the beach.

You must be a climber...



The problem with sledding the Oxbow isn't the water depth, it's the TWO 90deg turns within a couple hundred feet and the fact that there are HUGE boulders all the way up and down that you'd have to dodge.

Granted, at around 20,000 cfs that whole zone flattens out and covers all the rocks, ...there wouldn't be an S-turn to make, just trees to dodge.

I have floated it in a raft at near 20Kcfs and it's cake... other spots on the river aren't: try the dead end road @ above 16K cfs

With regards to that Video...
It kinda makes me sick to see boats like that operating in a river in that capacity. Joyriding is stooopid!

I'd love to see the under water video of a school of fish when that boat goes by. Sportjets suck cause they are way too loud.

Sorry FR.

Yeah I hear ya Ryley. I was actually on the river working on the day that group went by. Not the most serene setting to say the least.

That sort of thing, in this area, would seem to be pretty inappropriate. Running a sportjet for fun in the mud of of an alaskan river in the middle of nowhere is a different sort of thing though and I think it can be done responsibly with little impact to wildlife and other users in the area.

I thought that was a.n.g.i.e........

So I cut the right side a little close on the first chute and ground a little gravel. I was in fetal position as I run all rapids Who woulnd't be, rowing YOUR boat, with you in the front moaning and groaning

lmao

Hmm, I'd have to walk it and look at it! I've done some pretty stupid shiat with my sled.... Heck I beached it 3 weeks ago running something that was too shallow, busted my back on the seat box when it catipulted me!

Keith