Little White Salmon

Feb 08, 2012 08:37

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The helicopter footage is gorgeous, especially the ways the trees glimmer when the camera zooms back out, and the views of Mount Hood. This is the legendary favorite local class V run. I haven't been there yet. The word is that there is quite a bit of new wood washed into the Green Truss, and in bad places, so perhaps this is where my boating ( Read more... )

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liveonearth June 18 2012, 18:19:02 UTC
Today a woman died on her first attempt at running the Little White. She was only 38.
http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/jun/17/kayaker-who-died-saturday-was-portland-woman/

I have been considering making the run myself. Several of my regular boating buddies know it well, and keep telling me that I'd do fine. I was simply waiting until the water level got down to an optimal first timer level. But with this heads up, I may put it off some more. Or indefinitely.

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