Whitewater road trip part II

After crashing at my parents house in Amity, Chipper and I headed north to try to find something to run.  We were having serious technical cell phone problems, and ended up not really getting in touch with anyone.  We ended up heading to the East Fork Lewis river, in hopes of just randomly meeting up with folks.  Chipper had been in touch with Mike Olsen, who lived on the river, and who apparently was spending the day clearing a log jam in the tightest part of the gorge.  After being generally unsucessful for about two hours, we finally ran into Heather Herbeck and friends  on their way to the putin.  We tagged along and ended up having a fantastic run. 

The EF was running at about 1000cfs but it felt like low water compared to the upper wind the day before.  We ran half a mile of II+ until we got to Sunset falls, one of my favorite waterfalls.  Although there are three sweet lines on this drop, only the left looked good.  I ran second after Heather, cutting diagonally left through the guard hole and getting a good left boof to straighten out.  There were some interesting lines, including a swim in which the boat completely vanished under the falls for a good minute.  

We ran on down through sky pilot, but at the Olsen's house there was a big sign warning that the logs hadn't been cut out yet, and to come on up to the house.  Mrs Olsen was kind enough to drive us in a truck shuttle around the gorge to their friend's house on the other side of the gorge. We put back in a ran down to Horseshoe Falls, which most of us ran blind through door #2.  Easy falls, but so much fun!  The rest of the run was relaxing and fun.  Ended up being a really fun group.

After the mandatory PDXkayaker PBRs at the takeout, chip and I drove back to Seattle, getting in around 8 after a great weekend of boating.