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July 8 2010: Updated club members on
the recent July 4 weekend Ruby/Horsethief/Westwater trip and upcoming July
15 Gates of Lodore trip. Pictures from both trips are now posted on
our PPRR facebook page. Announced an Aug 29, 2010 Grand trip (picked
up on that day's lottery). Checked in with boaters for the Arkansas on
the weekend of July 17. Gave away many of the Down River Equip
free door prizes. Next meeting is Aug
16 Potluck at Anne Pierce's home.
May 13 2010: Enjoyed delicious BBQ at
Famous Dave's for our club meeting this month. Decided to shift the
next club meeting (Ark weekend) to June 26/27
(details to come). Finalized plans for the May Taos Box club trip.
Dolores planned spill
has been revised this week- for a tentative 3 day spill- still remains iffy.
Got our club Westwater trip set for July 4 weekend (sorry folks, it's full).
Discussed upcoming Middle Fork trip with a few club members. Reviewed
snowpacks (generally not that great) and current river flows.
Apr 8, 2010: Enjoyed Free pizza and
drinks at RM Rafts new store in Colorado
Springs. RM Rafts is officially open, check out their website for
store hours and location. Thanks a bunch to Joe Kallis at RM Rafts for
hosting our club meeting, it was fun to see and touch new equipment!
If you want Joe to stock specific rafting equipment, just let him know.
We also gave away a lot of free door prizes (thanks to RM Rafts and
Down River) so everyone
came away a winner. Lots of veteran club members and a sprinkling of
new members. I've updated the roster on our discussion database.
We reviewed western snowpack levels and flow levels. Salt is the place
to be right now! Taos Box will be the next hot spot (I think), mark
your calendars for the May Taos Box club trip.
Dolores planned spill
looks very iffy this year. Central to N Colorado and Idaho are also poor
bets for high flows this year. Anne Pierce gave us a fresh Salt trip
report, flows and weather were great. Several club members either just
got off the Salt river OR were just launching today. Nick Olsen
was on his way to Westwater tomorrow and has already run the Ark at a
whopping 200 cfs. Don't forget to call in on May 4 for our July 4th
Westwater permit club trip. Contact
Christina King for
details. Also, let Christina know if you are interested in a Gates of
Lodore Green trip in July, we might have space on that trip. Colorado
Rafting bill even made the Wall Street Journal
http://tinyurl.com/y3m2sxv
Pat Nolan has
posted a boatmen's rummage sale notice for next weekend on our discussion
group, I'm sure you can get some equipment deals there. Be sure the review
the list. Our next club meeting will be at
Famous Dave's on May 13- arrive before 6 pm to get happy hour prices.
Notified everyone about our new Facebook page, check it out at the link
below.
Mar 12, 2010: Great turnout at our
first formal club meeting of the year at La Unica. In fact, so many
attended it was hard to hear and catch up with everyone. We did our
best to conduct a meeting and I know everyone is looking forward to a fun
boating season this summer. We reviewed flows and put-in on the Salt-
several club members going down there at the end of this month. Water
should be big on the Salt this year, snowpack keeps increasing- last reading
was 246% of normal, high flows last week were 7,000 cfs. The highest I
have run it was 4,000 cfs and that was big and pushy (BUT very fun).
Corkscrew Rapid (right below Quartzite Falls) really was huge at that level.
Taos Box should be good but we noticed that the snowpack readings don't
indicate a huge snowfall despite news reports. Idaho snowpack readings
look dismal, I hope March snow patterns improve up north or it will be an
early season run on the Middle Fork. Club members talked about
Arkansas weekend trips beginning March 20th?!, Taos Box in May, Westwater
(July 4th weekend) and Cataract in September. I updated the PPRR
club roster (on the club discussion Yahoo group).
Thanks again to
Down River for
providing club members free river "booty" with no-cost (that's right FREE)
raffle tickets to about 10 winners at this meeting. We'll continue to
offer FREE raffles at every club meeting until we run out of FREE river
booty. I've got a large box of items donated by Down River, so make
sure you come to our next club meeting on April 8th at
RM Rafts
store in Colorado Springs.
RM Rafts
will be hosting a
FREE pizza, beer/soda party for all club members at his new local store for
our April 8th meeting. Joe Kallis is offering 15% off of river gear
including DRE, NRS, Aire, etc.. items. Please RSVP to
Christina King so we
can give Joe Kallis at RM rafts an estimate of how many club members plan to
attend so he won't run out of pizza and drinks! His store is open by
appointment until he gets all his inventory in the shop, most of it is in
boxes at the moment. We gave him a club wish list for in-stock items.
Let him know what you'd like to see him stock (so you can touch and feel it)
and he'll do his best to have it there.
Dec 12, 2009: Ava is selling her Five Hive
Honey gathered from her own hives. Contact Ava directly for a honey
order. Enjoyed a fun potluck at Barb's home for our annual permit
party. A few new members and plenty of long-time members talked about permit
and trip plans for 2010. See the
permit planning page for details. Came up with the idea to upload
club member pictures/names so that members can remember names/faces.
I created a Photo album on our Yahoo group that matches names and photos of
club members. I took some photos at the permit party and began also
hunting for close ups of members on trips. I'll continue this project over
the next month or so but if you want to put your name/face photo in the
album, please feel free. I'd much rather use river photos (close ups)
if possible. Click on our discussion group, select Photos, Club
Members album. Don't forget to fill out your permits and send them in
by the January deadlines. Created a rent/borrow gear space on the
For Rent page- check it out.
Next meeting is March 11, 2010.
October 2009: Be sure to RSVP Barb at
719-599-7909 if you plan to come to the Permit
Party. Also, Ava is selling her Five Hive
Honey gathered from her own hives.
Aug 13, 2009: We had a fun potluck
club meeting at Anne's house catching up on all the summer trips (Green,
Westwater, Selway, Alaska, etc....). Still have two more trips: Grand
Canyon and Main Salmon (both full) going out late this month. We will
work hard to organize refresher/training trips the remainder of this year
into next year for boaters who want to join trips but want experienced
boaters to help them along. Thanks to Anne Pierce for spearheading
that effort this year. We will also work on setting a permit party
date by October but in the meantime will plan informal get-togethers via the
PPRR club discussion group. Our next formal club
meeting will be in December at the Permit Party.
July 8, 2009: Our June "on the
Arkansas river" trips and Memorial weekend Yampa trips were great.
Recent trips over the July 4th holiday included Gates of Lodore and
Westwater. Plenty of fireworks/action during the terrible teens at
Westwater including relatively cool weather for this time of year in the
desert. Fun trips. Lots of recent high water trips on the
Arkansas- all sections by many club members. Anne Pierce organized a
beginner trip for Sunday, July 12 on the Arkansas (Texas Creek).
May 14, 2009: We had a a delightful
BBQ dinner on the deck at Famous Dave's tonight. Lots of talk about
recent Grand, Taos Box and Arkansas trips. Planned for our upcoming
Yampa trip. No takers on Taos Box this weekend from PPRR members but
we've got enough interest from Denver (and other) area boaters to make it
happen. Did a quick check of flows this afternoon on some of our
favorite rivers this time of year. Arkansas at Nathrop (1830 cfs),
Yampa (11, 800), Taos Box (2650), Middle Fork (4.0- but road to Boundary
still blocked by snow), Main Salmon at Corn Creek (3.5 feet, 26,000 at
Whitebird), Green (4500), Grand Canyon (7000-12,500), Westwater (26,000),
Dolores (2200 BUT
releases predicted to be very short in duration) and North Platte (645,
kind of a dud choice at the moment). Snowpack at Taos headwaters is
down to 41%- looks like last weekend and this weekend are the top choices if
you want to hit peak water on this section of the river. Arkansas
basin at 68%, it might have an early peak also. I've listed the
various trip plans by club members below in the upcoming weeks. It
seems like many of the group are headed in many different directions to run
rivers and some haven't gotten their boats unrolled yet. Hurry up or
you'll miss the good water! Our next club
"meeting" isn't until July 8th. We have an "official" club
gathering on the river June 13/14th but no formal
club meeting in Colorado Springs in June. Book your campsite at Ruby
asap, reserved sites were dwindling fast!
If you are a rafter and interested in joining a
July 3-5 Loma/Westwater/Cisco trip let
Christina King know asap. Still
might have some spots open.
Don't forget, for those hanging out on the Arkansas
this weekend, it's the
River Clean up day
on Saturday, get a free lunch in Salida if you officially sign up in BV or
Salida and gather trash along the river.
Apr 9, 2009: Our try at a new location
(Henri's- renamed Jorge's in Old Colorado City) was nice and we had a few
old & returning members join the regular crowd. With the recent active
weather patterns in the west, not many club members have running rivers much
lately and those that have commented on the poor conditions. Based on
the trips at the last meeting, club members joined Ron Baur on his May 4 San
Juan trip and others got on an August Grand trip. It really benefits
club members to come to meetings, you get invited on trips much more often
once people connect a name, face & personality at a meeting rather than on
the internet! We set plans to call in for a Westwater permit on May
4th for a July 4th permit date. At the moment we have enough interest
to make it for ~16 people if we are lucky enough to get a permit.
The plan would be to run Ruby/Horsethief on Friday, July 3rd (work day
holiday for most of us) and then run the Westwater rapids on July 4th, camp
below and float out Sunday morning to get back home Sunday night and back to
work on Monday. This entire plan hinges on enough of us trying to call
in for a permit (successfully) on May 4th. I'll send out a discussion
group email reminder closer to the date. We reviewed snowpack levels
in the west, not many river basins we typically boat in have great snowpack
compared to a month ago. The Salt river was hard to predict but
despite the speculation on flows, a small group of local boaters ended up
jumping on good trips with the relatively sporadic good flows.
Overall, there are firm Yampa, Gates of Lodore and Grand trips planned for
the summer. Not too bad. We can't seem to drum up any interest
in going to Idaho this summer, vacation is at a premium. Our
next club meeting is May 14 - right before our
traditional planned Taos Box weekend. Hope the
snowmelt cooperates on this favorite run. Don't forget about the
Arkansas River Cleanup
on May 16, 2009. If Taos Box flows do not come up, most of us will
join the Arkansas river cleanup on that Saturday.
March 12, 2009: We had a nice turnout
at our March meeting at La Unica. Both long-term and new members
rounded out the group. All sorts of discussion about Salt permits and
flow forecasts (most were wrong).
Ron Baur offered up some spots on
a May 4 San Juan trip (contact him asap if you are interested).
Bob Tibodeau was unable to
attend the meeting but wanted me to pass along that he has a July 22 Deso
permit that has slots open also. Taos Box is coming up and the
snowpack looks like it will support good flows this May. Don't forget
about our club Taos Box trip scheduled for May 16-
17, 2009, all are welcome. Call in plans for the Middle Fork of the
Salmon include trying for a week of July 20 date. There was interest
in running a low water Middle Fork trip this year, folks are tired of snow!
Nick Olsen & Pete cooked up a July 4 Westwater weekend trip plan- they'll be
calling for a permit. Our next meeting is April 9, 2009 at a new
location, Henri's in Old Colorado City. Check out the
calendar for more details. Just a reminder, if
you attend meetings and get to know club members, you get invited on trips
(it's as easy as that)! Dec 13, 2008 Permit Party: Once again,
Barb hosted a great permit party at her home. I've posted photos on our
discussion photos folder. We also finalized the river trip plans-
including permit application dates for 2009 on the
Permits page. A couple of items of
note; we are applying for a much later Middle Fork of the Salmon date than
normal (July)- it would be nice to go when it isn't snowing, Grand lottery
opens in Feb for 2010 and club shirts can be purchase anytime of the year
(see our For Sale page). Our 2009
Calendar was also set. Don't forget the
first permits are due by Jan 15, 2009 (Salt River). Aug 6, 2008: Enjoyed a tasty potluck
BBQ at Anne Pierce's home and checked out river trip tales & photos. July 10, 2008: Lots of river trips
since our last meeting. Shared trip reports from the Middle Fork,
Gates of Lodore, San Juan, Taos Box, Royal Gorge and of course the Arkansas.
We changed the date of our next meeting to Aug 6- Potluck at Anne's home
(map on the Calendar page). Upcoming
trips planned for both the Numbers and the Gorge on remaining weekends in
July. I have also posted recent trip reports on the
Stories page. Still adding
photos weekly to both of these new trip reports.
May 15, 2008: Wow, again we had low
turnout at the meeting tonight. I know some club members are on the
river (Deso, Dolores, etc...) as I type but not sure of the river trip plans
for other club members not at the meeting. Despite the few of us in
attendance we discussed planning for this weekends Taos Box trip (meet by 8
am at the put-in- ready to shuttle by 9 am) and upcoming Middle Fork trip.
Don't forget that the Westwater club call-in
date is Tuesday, May 27 (day after Memorial weekend) for the targeted
July 26/27 trip. The next meeting is June 21/22 for
the Arkansas Club weekend. In the meantime, many of us will be running Taos
Box, the Arkansas, Dolores, Middle Fork and other great western rivers.
Apr 10, 2008: We had very low
attendance tonight but a few hardy souls showed up. We talked about
snowpack, river flows, May trips (likely Taos Box) and plans for Memorial
weekend and the summer. Nick, Keith, Pete and I shared our
Salt trip adventures and photos with
those that attended. The next meeting is May 15,
at Famous Dave's.
Mar 13, 2008: We had a great time
discussing western snowpack (=great runoff) and
upcoming trips. Upcoming trips include the Salt, Taos, Westwater,
likely Dolores, Gates of Lodore, Arkansas, Middle Fork of the Salmon and
numerous Grand trips. This could be one of those "perfect seasons".
We also adjusted the 2008 Calendar meetings and
Arkansas club weekend dates a bit. Since we got so many permits, we
adjusted our Westwater plan for July
2008. Our club weekend dates were moved from the original Fibark
weekend of June 14/15 to June 21/22 because we'll be in Idaho through Fibark
weekend. We also had to change the location of the joint club river
weekend (HCRR,
PPWC,
Colorado Whitewater)
because Jim Pike's land is not available this summer. We shifted the
location to Chalk Creek Campground- check out the details at our
2008 Calendar page. I know everyone is
excited to run Taos and the Ark when they come up. Our
next meeting is at South Side Johnny's in
Colorado Springs on Apr 10.
FYI- if you come to club meetings you get invited
on trips! Aug 9th, 2007: We enjoyed a fun BBQ at Anne Pierce's
home on Thursday, Aug 9th where we watched photos from recent trips (Gates
of Lodore, Idaho (Middle Fork), new Africa photos and Sweden photos.
We plan on having an informal club meeting at La Unica on Sept 21 or 22 to
share Grand photos and dinner. I'll post a firmed up date sometime in
Mid-Sept on the discussion group.
July 13, 2007: We had a fun meeting at
La Unica. Lots of planning discussion about the upcoming Gates of
Lodore trip. Forgot to bring our Westwater photos. The next
meeting
is hosted at Anne Pierce's home on Thursday, Aug 9th, bring your own drinks
and a dish to share. Details on the Calendar
page. Hope to see you there, don't forget to bring your favorite
photos! June/July, 2007: Wow, we had a great
time on the joint club weekend - posted photos on the
discussion group Joint club weekend 2007 Photos page. Enjoyed a
Westwater trip July 1-3. Ran trips in the Gorge, Numbers and in Browns
on the weekend of June 23rd. Next meeting
is at La Unica on July 11. Hope to see you there, we'll bring photos.
May 9, 2007: Enjoyed a new meeting
location at Famous Dave's on the north end of Colorado Springs. Had a
new club member come down from Denver. We shared a trip report from
the recent double Westwater trips May 4 and 6. Westwater trip was fun,
weather was awful (cold, rain, hail and snow on the way home), flow was
great, drive home epic! Discussed upcoming Taos
Box plans for wekeend of May 19/20 and Middle Fork trip at the end of
May (and associated log jam speculation). Next meeting is on June
16-17 weekend- note details below or on the Calendar page for details. Updated club roster on the discussion group files.
Best of all, Beth Roren came to the club meeting and brought new babies
Katie and Hunter. They all look great and it's wonderful to see the
babies plump and healthy. A pure delight to see Dave Wimmer rocking
away with Katie. We missed hearing about Dave Sample's recent Grand
trip and will look forward to a trip report from him in the near future.
April 11, 2007: Enjoyed catching up
with boaters and their trips. Got trip reports from the following trips;
Taos Box runs, Diamond down, upcoming end of April Grand trips, upcoming
plans to run Westwater. Next meeting is on May 9 at Famous Dave's BBQ
(north end of Colorado Springs) click on Calendar page for details.
Confirmed joint club trip for weekend of June 16/17 on the Arkansas (see
info below). Updated club roster on the discussion group files. March 14, 2007: Enjoyed a fun spring
meeting at La Unica, lots of river trip plans and some permits discussed.
Salt permit for April 4th- flow isn't cooperating. However, Taos came
up quickly so plans were made to boat there. See March 17, 2007 Taos
weekend trip pictures at the
Photos
section on the discussion group page - sunny day, great flow, cold
water. New club list uploaded to
discussion group in Files section. Next meeting on April 11, at The
Depot, click on Calendar page for details.
Check out our Taos Box page for weekend plans.
Noted adequate flows at Westwater however not much enthusiasm for lower
flows combined with cool temps. Many plan to save Westwater for a warm
summer trip.
December 2, 2006 Permit Party: Despite the snowstorm
and slick roads we had a good turnout. Barb made great green chili and
we enjoyed watching DVD's from recent Africa, Grand trips. We brought
a new DVD-
Feeding the Dragon- of boating adventures in Idaho and the Grand.
Cascade Outfitters sells it, it's good but relatively short ~30 minutes?
Decided to schedule 2007 meetings on 2nd Wed of the month. We
are open to new meeting locations, if you have suggestions send them to
Christina King.
October, 2006: Enjoyed looking at
Africa (Zambezi), Grand and Selway trip pictures at the Photo party.
Don't forget about the annual Permit Party on
December 2, 2006 Aug 2, 2006: We had a great time at
the Aug club meeting/BBQ thanks to Beth and Eric. Enjoyed looking at
the recent Green trip pictures and hearing about everyone's summer
adventures.
July 14, 2006: Cancelled the Sept
meeting/BBQ and moved it to Aug 2 at (6 pm). Beth and Eric Roren are
hosting a club BBQ/potluck at their new home on Aug 2 at 6 pm. Bring
an appetizer, side dish/dessert, your own beverage and river chair.
I'll bring some hamburgers, Beth is will provide bratwursts and she will
also make sure to have condiments. Join us to check out their new
home, celebrate the end of the club meeting season for the summer and meet
other boaters. Be sure to bring your favorite photos, stories and
boating videos.
Directions to Beth and Eric's: 470 Hidden Road, Colorado Springs,
CO 719-592-1729 home phone. Email Beth to RSVP at
beth.roren@quantum.com
From Hwy 25
Exit Woodmen Rd (exit #149)
Head west off the exit (if coming from South, left under Hwy,
if coming from North, right off the exit)
Go straight at light at Commerce Center Dr.
At the next light, turn right to stay on W. Woodmen Rd (if
you continue straight, the road turns into Rockrimmon)
Right on Eastwood (Approx. 1.5 miles after you turn onto W.
Woodmen Rd, 2nd street on right)
Up and over the hill
Veer right at bottom of the hill onto Hidden Valley Rd
Continue right at the next intersection (where mail boxes are
located) to stay on Hidden Valley Rd.
3rd or 4th driveway on your left, look for post and beam
fence and windmill July 5, 2006: Only 6 of us at this
meeting at La Unica. Holiday week and a drenching storm served to make
it a small meeting. However, we had a great Westwater club trip over
the July 4 weekend. Pat let us know that the Upper Colorado trip
wasn't going to happen but showed off a picture of her new trailer.
Added club BBQ photos to
Yahoo discussion group Photos section. June 24/25, 2006: We enjoyed a great
weekend club collaboration/boating event.
HCRR
and
CWWA
clubs joined our club for a weekend of boating on the Arkansas. Jim
Pike hosted all the club members for camping and a BBQ on his property
adjacent to Ruby Mountain. We had so much fun, I anticipate a repeat
next summer if Jim will host us again. Next
meeting is July 5 at La Unica- 7 pm.
May 3, 2006: I can tell everyone is getting spring fever by the
number of club attendees at our meeting this month. Discussed upcoming
river plans- updated the list below, snowpack levels and
river cleanup event. The next meeting is not until June 24 to be
held at Ruby Mountain near Buena Vista on a weekend.
May 1, 2006: Brandy was adopted! April 5, 2006:
We had a fun meeting at
Giuseppe's Depot with lots of trips discussed. Added more planned club trips
(Green River/Gates of Lodore) to the
river trip calendar below. Changed the June meeting date and location
to Ruby Mountain (see below or
Calendar page for details). Added a Sept meeting
date/location to a potluck/bbq at Beth & Eric's new home
(details to be coming). Next meeting is
at on May 3, 2006 at Jose Muldoon's.
Anne our soft-hearted club vet
let us know about a great River dog (Brandy) that
needs adopting. March 1, 2006:
Our first meeting of the year
at La Unica had a great turnout. Everyone is in the trip planning mode
in anticipation of a good year. Added some planned club trips to the
river trip calendar below. Next meeting is
at on April 5, 2006.
Dec 10, 2005: We had a great DO Cookoff and Permit Planning party.
I've updated the permit plans we have for 2006 on the Permit Planning page. Congratulations to Keith
Fuqua (Lasagna), Jeff & Karen Hodge (Jalepeno Cornbread) and Christina King (Monkey
bread) for winning the donated DO books for their tasty entries. Also thanks to Down
River (our website sponsor), 4 Corners and NRS for donating the prizes to our DO Cookoff
club event. The food brought by everyone was delicious (spicy Thai soup, Green
chili, pies, cookies, fudge, etc...). We set the meeting calendar
for 2006, kept the 1st Wed of the month.
Sept 12, 2005: Postponed DO
Cookoff event to Dec 10 Permit Party.
Sept 3, 2005:
Finalized plans for the Sept 17 Dutch Oven Cook-off and
potluck.
August 3, 2005: We
met at Front Range BBQ in Colorado Springs on Aug 3 despite the torrential downpour of
rain (yippee) and enjoyed a fun club meeting watching the rain fall and eating BBQ on our
covered porch. Ann, Joe, Jack, Wendy and Keith gave us updates from recent Main
Salmon, Gates of Lodore and Westwater trips. Note to campers/boaters: Don't
use white gas to get charcoal going!
Upcoming plans:
Next month (September) is our last meeting of the year and I wanted to get input
from club members on what we should plan for. I'd like to plan a September
meeting/dutch oven/potluck at Bear Creek Regional Park in Colorado Springs. There
are several ideas "floating" about including; plan it for a weekend or
weeknight, later in Sept will be much cooler (current meeting is planned for Sept 7 - Wed
night at 7 pm), bring pictures from summer river trips. I'm open to suggestions to
make it the best date/location for everyone and encourage wide club participation.
Suggestions are welcome. Send your suggestions to Christina King at
canyonthedog @ warpdriveonline.com . I might put a poll out on the discussion group
to see what works best for everyone as well.
Recipe books: We
are out of our first batch of printed Recipe books and will review doing another printing
if the requests come in to us. If you want to add some recipes to the next printing
please send them to Pat Nolan @ riverphoto at aol.com
Gore Canyon races: Races are Aug 19 and 20. See
link for detailed information
http://www.rapidpulse.com/gore/05_info.htm
Upcoming river trips:
Plans are in the works for duckying the Numbers this weekend (Aug 6 and/or 7) and
duckying the upper Taos Box (involves backpacking/hiking your ducky in quite a ways).
Contact jack @ firstcapitalmortgage.net for more info. Talk about
boating in Mexico this winter as well. Email Jack also.
July 6, 2005:
This past month has been one river trip after another with Pikes
Peak River Runners club members. We've got club members boating on the Poudre, North
Platte, Arkansas, Grand Canyon, Selway, Gates of Lodore, South Fork of the Payette, Boise
River, Main Salmon, Upper Colorado, Taylor River and Taos Box. Quite a selection of
western rivers! We shared some pictures and trip reports.
http://www.pprr.org/Stories/RiverStories.htm . Upcoming July trips include
Westwater and Gates of Lodore. Contact Jack at jack@firstcapitalmortgage.net if you
are interested in joining any trips.
We enjoyed a great meeting location at La Unica this month.
Next month we will meet at Front Range Barbeque (6 instead of 7 pm because they get
crowded early) on August 3. http://www.pprr.org/Calendar.htm
June 1, 2005:
The Pikes Peak River
Runners club meeting last night at Old Chicago was fun. We shared trip reports from recent
trips to Taos Box, Dolores, San Juan, Pecos River, Grand Canyon and Gates of Lodore (story
and photos to be posted in the near future). Enjoyed photos from the San Juan and Gates of
Lodore trips. We also discussed the drastic drop in flows on many of the western rivers
during the last couple of days from this past week/weekend highs.
Club member plans for the near future include;
- Royal Gorge on Friday, June 3
- Taos on Saturday, June 5
- Browns Canyon on Saturday and Sunday, June 5 & 6
- Northgate Canyon (North Platte) on June 11/12
- Several Selway trips for the next two weeks
- Arkansas weekends of June 18/19 and June 25/26 (Brown’s and
Gorge if the water holds up).
- BBQ on the Ark - July timeframe (likely weekend of July 9/10) -
more details to come closer to the date.
- Main Salmon in July
Meeting locations: shifted next month’s meeting to La Unica
at 3317 W. Colorado Ave, 633-7499. Plan on moving the club potluck to the September
meeting date. Looking for location ideas for the August meeting location. Next meeting is
July 6, 2005 (7 pm) at La Unica in just north of the Safeway on West Colorado Ave in
Colorado Springs.
May 4, 2005:
Lots of plans for Taos Box most weekends until
Memorial weekend. In April, a large group of us went to see the Imax Mystery of the Nile movie. It was a wonderful film.
We highly recommend it. Pat Nolan gave us a San Juan trip report from a
recent club trip. Lots of club members have Idaho, Grand, Taos, San Juan and other
river trips planned during the next few months. Might be a bit quiet in Colorado as
club members go to other rivers in our western region. Next
meeting is June 1, 2005 at Old Chicago's restaurant in downtown Colorado
Springs.
April 6, 2005:
Great new meeting location (Giuseppe's). Keith and Dave Sample
briefed the group about our recent Salt trip.
Dave Wimmer shared his April 2 Westwater trip with the group (river was running
4,000 cfs) and enjoyed the nice weather. Dave's group has an interesting run/flip at
Westwater's Sock it to Me rapid but all ended up fine. Planned a group trip to Denver to
see the Imax Mystery of the Nile movie. Dave Sample is planning a
trip to Taos April 9/10 weekend, HCRR is planning a trip to Taos as well April 16th
weekend. Dolores is running, operating flow plan
is at this link. Pat Nolan should have the Pikes Peak River Runners
cookbook printed by April 18th. Pat Nolan will bring them to the next meeting or
you can contact her to arrange picking your copy up. Lots of discussion about
upcoming Grand trips by club members. Next meeting is May
4, 2005.
March 2, 2005:
Great first meeting of the year. Previewed new Pikes Peak River
Runners Cookbook (on For Sale page). Talked about upcoming
San Juan and Salt trips, heard about Dave's Christmas Grand trip, planned Taos Box trips
for April/May timeframe.
Dec 24, 2004:
Big Bend trip is cancelled due to marginal weather forecast and low flows.
December 11,
2004 (Permit Party):
We had a great time at
the permit party. We firmed up the permit
application and trip plans for 2005. I posted the 2005
meeting dates on the website as well. Pat
Nolan is looking for more recipes to include in our cookbook. Photos with dutch
ovens in them are especially welcome. Pat also needs lunch, dessert and appetizer
recipes. Several people are interested in the Big Bend trip (see below). We
are in standby to see what the flow does. On Dec 12, the flow is at 4.8 feet which
is about 380 cfs. Let the King's know if
you are interested in the trip. We'll make a go/no go decision around Dec 27th.
Sept 2, 2004: Last meeting of
the year until Dec Permit Party. Trip reports by
Schneiders on last weekends Gates of Lodore trip. Nice weather, easy to get cancellations,
good water- releasing from Flaming Gorge. Mid Aug Rio Chama was cancelled due to
non-confirmed flow releases. Turns out the BLM released 600 cfs but the group went
and did Parkdale on the Ark instead and had a great time. Alaska Tatshenshini river
update: Bill and Irene's Alaska adventures include a member of their group breaking their
arm at the put-in. The rest of group continued the Tat river trip and had a good
time. The Cooke's are really enjoying their long (almost 8 week) trip in Alaska.
Haines has been their favorite town with the Chilkoot trail the most challenging backpack
trip. Several of us enjoyed attending Beth and Eric's August
wedding.
Plans for next year include rotating different
meeting locations. Suggestions included; South Side Johnnies, Phantom Canyon, The
Depot, BBQ potluck (Aug or Sept) at Bear Creek Regional Park (including a dutch oven class?), ??? send us your
suggestions for other locations. We had a couple of new members show up tonight. Pat
Nolan's friend Gordon volunteered to present a river slide show at our Permit party.
Of course, we encourage everyone to bring photos and videos of their river (or other
outdoor) adventures to the Permit Party. Barb again volunteered to host the annual
early Dec Permit Party (date TBD).
Upcoming trips: Labor Day weekend on the Blue.
Contact Dave Sample asap if you want to
go to get the details.
August ?: Westwater trip
report by Keith Fuqua and Pete. Upcoming Rio Chama plans were discussed as
well. Sorry, I forgot to take notes.
July 1: We had a great
meeting in the back room at Johnny's. Dave and Keith brought their laptops and
showed off their recent Grand and Idaho trip photos. Karen gave us a link to her Middle
Fork photos. We also distributed FREE Leave No Trace river corridor boat tags
and coupons from Down River, our sponsor. Upcoming Rio Chama and Westwater plans
were discussed as well.
June 23: Next meeting on July
1 is at South Side Johnny's. A new location for us. We'll hear Middle Fork of the Salmon
and Main Salmon trip reports. We have some new Free Leave No Trace River Corridor
cards to give away and coupons to Down River Equipment Company. I'll bring some new
photos from Seidel's on the Arkansas. Hope to see you there.
May 6 meeting in Woodland Park: Suggestion
was made to have remaining 2004 meetings in Colorado Springs. Will update the
calendar to try this suggestion.
River cleanup news
May 15!
March 15, 2004 update from March 4
meeting: We met at Zak's on a snowy, dark, and slick-road night. We
had very few attendees but those that did attend proved to be hard core boaters. You
have seen some trips posted but mainly we talked about permits and those that have them.
Hint: It's extremely helpful to attend a meeting if you want to be asked to
join a trip. One major decision we made on March 4, is that Ralph Hofffman is the
2004 groover officer, now all he has to do is pull a permit and ask us! We decided
to abandon the Big Bend trip idea for March as many of us are on the Salt during the next
few weeks. The Salt River flow is up and looks good. I have updated both the club meeting calendar and the river trip calendar below.
Big News: Used boat sale and swap
at Down River Equipment (our website sponsor) on March 26-28. Call Down River to find out
the details. Also, we have planned a Colorado Springs Pikes Peak River Runners
swap/sell event at the April 8th meeting in Colorado Springs. Bring your used gear
and try to sell /swap it. The April 8th meeting will start at 6 pm rather than 7 pm
to see all of the gear! |
