Photo from a canoe trip

[kerry]

This is a picture of some paddlers on our trip scouting Virginia Falls on the South Nahanni river. No, we didn't, we portaged.

Scanned some old slides and found it.

Looks like fun; is that a class 3? Did you do that in a canoe, looks like it needs a kayak?

[Kuan]

Originally Posted by kerry

No, we didn't, we portaged.

I had no idea that word was in your vocabulary!

[kerry]

Canoes. That falls is twice as high as Niagara Falls. Most of the rapids on the river are Class III. One rapid might warrant a IV.

Originally Posted by kerry

Canoes. That falls is twice as high as Niagara Falls. Most of the rapids on the river are Class III. One rapid might warrant a IV.

Cool, but I would probably end up in the water, my canoe skills are not great.

[kerry]

Originally Posted by Kuan

I had no idea that word was in your vocabulary!

My vocabulary increases the tighter my sphincter gets.

[Kuan]

Hey that's a pretty good portage rig. I've always wondered about getting one of those. Sits the whole weight of the boat on your hips right?

[kerry]

I took a pack frame and some 3/4" flat steel stock. Bent the steel stock into a squashed Z shape when viewed from the side, and coated the steel in a liquid rubber. One leg of the Z drops into the pack frame tube and the boat sits in the rest of the Z. Very comfortable. That boat only weighs 54lbs though.
It's a flatwater boat. (18' Wenonah Jensen) That picture was taken in the Quetico. I was paddling a Royalex Old Town Tripper with a fabric deck on the Nahnni. Don't think I'd paddle a Tripper on the Nahanni again. The upper section is very technical and rocky. Something like a Blue Hole Starburst, Old Town Appalachian or Esquif Canyon would be much better up there although the cargo capacity would be less.

[t walgamuth]

Most impressive falls!

I didn't see the scale at first til I spotted the people in it!

[tonkovich]

Originally Posted by kerry

This is a picture of some paddlers on our trip scouting Virginia Falls on the South Nahanni river. No, we didn't, we portaged.

Scanned some old slides and found it.

didn't consider using the old "barrel" method?

[kerry]

The river is a United Nations World Heritage Park:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahanni_National_Park_Reserve

[Mistress]

Kerry thanks for the beautiful photograph. Looks like fun.

[WVOtoGO]

Cool picture. Thanks.
That looks pretty spooky.

I prefer my water fast and shallow.
And - In a Ducky.


Yep, Kerry. I did manage to pull that one around.
About 60 yards down stream where that creek hit the Salmon River however… I went swim’n.

[kerry]

Originally Posted by WVOtoGO

Yep, Kerry. I did manage to pull that one around.
.

I think we need to see proof of that.

[WVOtoGO]

Originally Posted by kerry

I think we need to see proof of that.

I'll see if there's a frame or two after that one.

“Pull…around” might be a deceiving line there.
That’s a push, not a dig/pull.

I came around backwards and then turned it “around” on the piece of flatter water beginning at the bottom of the pic.

Then things got nasty.