[resent to paddlewise: Daves comments on the Rogue are applicable to more than just I alone - Glen 8] > Also, consider the Wild & Scenic portion of the Rogue I grew up in Grants Pass, Oregon and I can testify that some of the prettiest country I've seen is along the Rogue River between Grants Pass, and Gold Beach. I worked for the Forest Service inventorying the Siskiyou National Forest along the Rogue two summers. We worked upriver from Agness and traveled with an old prospector/riverboatman in a river boat like a New England dory with a 50 HP outboard. If we made it, you should be able to do so. I do know that it's rough enough that someone dies out there every year or two. They used to have a race from Agness up the river a way, and back in outboard boats. The year I watched, 17 boats started and only two finished. The rest met rocks along the way. You'd want to check the water flow and talk to someone who's done it, bu t one summer a group of kayaks came along just as my partner and I had entered the very cold water for our first bath in a 10 day work period. We submerged as they went by and we were totally purple by the time they went past and we exited the ice water. It took about 20 minutes of hugging hot boulders for the teeth to stop chattering. That's with an air temperature of around 100 degrees F. It's gorgeous, wild country, loaded with wildlife, brown bears, river otter, and LOTS of rattlesnakes. If you decide to do this one, get hold of the book, Rogue River, I think it's by Zane Grey, and spot the locations in it as you do the river. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dave Flory, San Jose, CA. daflory_at_pacbell.net Go Sea Kayaking!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speak softly and study Aikido, then you won't need a big stick. A92000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Oct 22 2000 - 15:21:27 PDT
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