Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Attains and Levels

VA Chute
Attainers Right -2.7-3.7
Attainers Left 3.8
Va Slot
3.7-5.0ft)
Va Bankside Left (Clay-tainment or John's Folly)
4.6-4.8

Md Chute
Attainers Right 4.1-5.2
Attainers Left
Lows threes close in slalom boat.
Promising at 3.7-3.9ft.

Slot Below Md (Clay's Revenge)
3.8-4.8ft

2 Attains above MD chute (below or at DC channel)
1st- 4.3 -5ft possible
2nd- 4.8 -5ft. around dead cow channel. 4.3-4.4 was fine.
Probably trivial any lower or covered much higher, so the upper 4's are good times to try.


Rocky
Md Side
2.8-3
Va Side
2.6-3.5 3.6-3.7 looks doable with work. Maybe even 3.8. Haven't tried consistently

Backchannel/sweetiepie. 4.0-4.2
Eddy hop your way up to the fun diagonal hole below the main drop. The wave you surf across is small but doesnt particularly look pleasant. Its really an easy surf on a low brace and you pop up in the eddy.
4.22 for the main drop was too difficult for me, easy enough to get to.

Sturn Lower Sturn - Up to 3.3ft (some people got up I didn't get to try)
Upper Sturn Up to 3.3ft (some people got up I didnt get to try)

Portage Rapid=- Staging Eddy _ John
Entire Rapid- JS say 4.1

Wetbottom
2.5-4.3
>4.3 difficult to mindnumbingly difficult as level increases.
Specific notes
4.22 wasn't too bad- used both eddies, first one only briefly. lots of work
4.1ft not bad- first eddy to top then second was easy.
There's a level at some point below 4.3 that is hard, and i dont know if we've documented it yet.


Wetbottom Va Side- 4.4 Surges


Backchannel/dead cow
Options: Back channel, back channel of the back channel, side chute to below md chute, ferry above dead cow, chute to above md chute, attain top of backchannel.
~6ft backchannel to main opens-
5.73 all were open
5ft- BC to below md chute- easy
At 5.8ft, attain up backchannel, exit above md chute, ferry over to Va island and attain up va side for as long as you can, when you can't go further try Md side...then quit

Center Chute Attains
~3.7 4.1 ft Up Right Side
3 to 4.5ft Standard Elevator
3.3-3.5 Right Side up Center

Odeck etal- I have never tried

Offut- 4's to 5 attainable in playboats.
theres left and right side of offut channel, and around the island.
@5.1ft The standard playboat attain was easy. Attainers left and any way up the rest of the channel. Couldn't make it around the island

Carderock to Anglers (and beyond)-
At 3.35ft the attain was pretty easy, certain parts were quite shallow, any lower wouldnt be very fun. Yellow falls, middle, looked possible at this level, but didnt try. Mostly flatwater from offut to anglers. We think high 3's to 4s would be a good level to try this again.
4.8ft- Carderock to Anglers- attainers right at the start, effort but not too bad. Micro-eddy hopping for a while and a ferry over to Va side and work up the shore to Anglers.
4.1ft- easier than 4.8ft but getting a little shallow. more difficult to find a way up stubblefield.

Varies between slalom boat and plastic
If its not listed may mean I havent tried it yet or forgotten, not that its impossible.
I also could be mistaken

1 comment:

John Munnell said...

Hey, Clay...thinking we need to include Offut on the list. I've done it a few times, but haven't paid attention to the levels.