Re: [Paddlewise] Whitewater River & Railroad Wars

And then there is Shearar's Falls. We have never run it. In the summer, it's a
50' drop. We saw it last month, inundated so that it was about a 15' drop with
humongous waves at the bottom of each possible route. Serious 5, way beyond me.
but doable.

Roger

Geo. Bergeron wrote:

>         The Deschutes River Canyon is so popular for whitewater rafting and
> kayaking in the summer that the State of Oregon finds it necessary to issue
> permits and limit access. The Deschutes offers mostly class I rapids with a
> couple serious Class IV runs in a high desert environment with sage brush,
> geological splendor, and blazing 100 degree plus sunshine. To top it all,
> Teddy Roosevelt thought that the Deschutes may be the finest trout fishing
> river in the world. The history is really colorful too. . .
>
>         In 1855, U.S. Army Topographic Engineers declared that building a
> railroad along the narrow, basaltic cliffs of the Deschutes River gorge
> would be impossible. The economic incentive for such a railroad would be the
> billions of board-feet of Ponderosa pine in Bend.
>
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