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Crooked / Upper Upper Gorge, V-VI (P)

Wed, 2006-05-17 20:58 — jonathan
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Crooked
Info
Portage?: 
Yes
Class: 
V-VI
Put in: 
Old airstrip

In 1996 a team flew into Forks Hut and made their way out from there in ‘creek boats’ of the time. They only managed a paddle portage ratio of about 60/40. In 2006 Mark Eames, Allan Ellard, Blair Bowker and Andy O’ Connell flew in with their new Bliss-Stick ‘Scuds’ and paddled almost everything and reported that you start at the old airstrip and paddle a couple hundred metres of flat stuff before it starts dropping away. The class V section is probably one of the steepest + technical sections in the country. Everything is portagable, and there a couple short mandatory portages. The gradient is such that there are no single move lines (3-5 moves in a row was about standard per rapid) this definitely seems one of those runs you want to take the shortest boat you can get your hands on.

Fill: 
44%
NZ Whitewater 4th Edition 2006: 
p171
Credits: 
Graham Charles

This section appears in New Zealand Whitewater, 4th edition, 2006 on p171.

New Zealand Whitewater, 4th edition, 2006
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