Archives for June 2013

Due to rehabilitation activities and safety concerns, there is an area closure in the High Park Fire burn area. This closure restricts ALL activities, including kayaking, within the area. This includes activities on the Little South Fork of the Cache la Poudre River. Below is a link to the news release outlining the closure, as well as a map of the closure area. Any help you can provide sharing this information to the community would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance – Reghan Cloudman, Canyon Lakes Ranger District Public Affairs

Closure Area Map: http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5418467.pdf
Closure News Release: http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/arp/news-events/?cid=STELPRDB5418192

970-295-6770 (office phone)

Flows in the upper canyon, as of Sunday @ 7pm:

Joe Wright = High
Big South = Stomping high (the gauge rock was completely under water)
Spencer Heights = High (3.5ft on the painted rock gauge at Boneyard)
Little South Fork = Medium-Low (75 at the put-in gauge @ noon)

Little South Fork wood update: Our group kayaked the Little South Fork of the Poudre yesterday at medium-low flows and had two mandatory portages around river-wide logs. The first portage was easy to spot, about a third of the way down the run below the second of two new debris flows, around a river wide tree. The second portage begins at the entrance of the main rapid, toward the end of the run, immediately after a blind left-hand turn. Here you are avoiding two river-wide log jams, the first of which is in the lead-in to the rapid, and the other (a river wide dam) blocks the main drop itself. Be extremely careful leading up to the main rapid (the one near the end of the run), as the new log jam comes up fast around a blind corner with few options for eddies.