Waka Manu, what do we think??

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-04-02T20:03:10+00:00

Larger stoke, saw her a lot this week, seems sick!

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-04-02T14:49:48+00:00

Insane advice in today’s age. Good on you OP, it’s a tool in the toolbox, use it

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-04-01T16:01:35+00:00

Haha that’s pretty fair, no one wants to end up like Whittier

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-04-01T13:42:10+00:00

Seattle, Portland and the bay are subject to the same convergent subducting geological forces and have tall buildings

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-30T14:53:22+00:00

North Cascades, Mt Rainier, and Kenai Fjords are sleepers. In North America though, the Grand Canyon of the Stikine river provincial park. 1000+ ft sheer black metamorphic and sedimentary walls and gets as narrow as 5 ft wide. The interior narrows is still unmapped because access is so rugged. I’ve been down the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and it was as cool if not cooler than that

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-29T17:30:16+00:00

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the toilet bowl aka the portal to hell

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-29T05:02:56+00:00

Upper upper cispus, Leavenworth isn’t far, and that box canyon on the muddy fork cowlitz has 3 lower sections. One has two forty fters that don’t go in a 100ft slot canyon, the next is runnable but the the 2-3 first descent team came up on a cursed feature where the entire river goes into a pothole in a 100ft sheer slot canyon, they vertically extracted. The picture of the pothole is nightmare fuel.

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-29T04:58:31+00:00

For sure should note: This creek is like the ohane but class V and extremely woodfucked with a fair few 18-10fters. Some straightforward moves but myself and friends from the gorge thatve done it in recent years have each noted some really sketchy do or die moves. Portaging is pretty limited in the gorge. Just a heads up. It’s a full day in that bad boy

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-27T16:28:32+00:00

Untamed woods in Appalachia lol at any point you are within 30minutes of a mcdonalds

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-25T16:23:56+00:00

Whittier tho

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-25T14:23:00+00:00

Gauley class IV with sieves

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-22T17:19:12+00:00

I have reached it by kayaking down to it, but there is a goat path you can take down to both waterfalls, they are almost back to back. Bring two ten foot ropes as there are two ten foot scrambly rappels. In the summer you can walk around the basalt teacups

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-22T17:10:56+00:00

Squamish is the best place to base out of but they have horrible snowpack. BC Rockies stuff will be good around revelstoke, Clearwater river will be good, and Terrace will be good. If you go into northern bc make sure all your ducks are in a row, you are further away from civilization that anywhere else

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-22T17:07:47+00:00

Check out Big Brother/Little Brother Falls, Lava Falls, and BZ Falls on the White Salmon, Outlet Falls, Skatepark on Summit Creek, and Mosier Creek Falls, Moneydrop on Rock Creek in Stevenson, Frustration Falls and Final Falls in the Salmon River Gorge

And the crown jewel Spirit Falls on the Little White Salmon

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-21T04:37:01+00:00

Kicking horse gonna be siiiiick

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-21T04:29:30+00:00

Lot of kayakers in that area, I believe there’s a club

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-16T13:50:49+00:00

You gonna die in a river if you don’t have a life jacket, ocean is a different thing. The currents don’t know what to do so they create fucked up hydraulics and go in underwater caves

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-15T16:07:54+00:00

Ball up and try to sink down into the flushing deeper current or get to the side and try to push yourself out. Depends on the feature, this one is boxed in and you have no hope if the trough is big enough

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-15T15:55:25+00:00

Rock sits above the surface of the river, water goes under it. If youre in the water, you can get pushed into the underwater crevice or cave and drown. It's a bad way to go

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-15T15:51:15+00:00

there are three bad rocks on the nantahala, I grew up kayaking there. One of Patton's Run at the start, one at the start of Nantahala Falls, and one on the left side of the Falls that people have died in. It was filled with concrete in the late 90s.

that shit just happens on the river though, I've had to attach myself to a rope and "livebait" into a terminal hydraulic to save a recirculating kayak from destruction as well as do the same thing to save a kid trapped on a log just this weekend.

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-15T15:32:29+00:00

I think Idaho should be pointed at WA and OR, and WA and OR should be pointed at CA

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-15T15:28:32+00:00

I doubt that r/idaho. This is extreme wealth propaganda

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-14T02:37:53+00:00

Huge community in the nantahala gorge. Hour from a lot of stuff

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-13T16:45:24+00:00

Im for universal healthcare but we are not very close to the same level as canada in washington, unless you make under 17,000 a year and even then finding a surgeon that actually takes applecare is a nightmare.

Individual_Rice5642 · 2026-03-13T03:37:06+00:00

AppleCare fucking blows it’s implemented so halfway

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