Its not shocking to hear of folks, especially kayakers, trying to run this. There is definitely worse out there that people are dropping. That said, most rafters wouldn't dare take their rigs through that beast now. We took out after a scary scout in the winter of 2010. Just not worth the potential carnage to all of our expedition gear; boats are just coming off a 16-28 day trip. You can hear the rapid from way up river. The entire area is odd. Massive sand banks collapse on regular intervals starting 5 miles up river. There aren't many places to land and portage so you have to be on your A game. No really a enjoyable or scenic stretch of river....hell, half the time it feels like a war movie as you are hearing helicopters swooping around for the last 2 days.



I would love to go see the current rapid. Will be interesting to see how the priority to "equalize" the reservoirs will have on its development. The upper green and yampa are being compared to 1983-84 this season. May just be hype but it seems we are at least getting a few good years to challenge the long term drought.



Phllip