British Columbia White Water

The first drop of Triple Drop on the Upper Gordon has an extremely dangerous log in the left (normal) line. This one is especially insidious because it’s virtually impossible to see from river level (boat scouting) and the drop appears clean from the river-left setup eddy; but looking from either bank or from the ‘boof’ rocks in the middle you can see it. It’s right at gut level and is pretty much the perfect death trap. Should be OK at higher flows, but at medium and lower flows this one is real bad. The rest of the Upper and Middle are clean, with the exception of some branches hanging over the entrance to the river left (normal) line on double-drop.

Dave and I ended up paddling Meades Creek. Pretty fun day with good flow. The thing with that creek is that it has soooo much wood. Too bad. Other than that it’s a good easier creek run. Here is the info:
Meades Creek
Thanks to Erik Boomer for the info on the run!

UPDATE:

Here is an article about the government meeting that took place the day after the Forum:
Times Colonist

I got this from Stuart Smith today:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CITIZENS FOR PUBLIC POWER TO HOLD FORUM ON THE SELLING OUT OF BC’S WATER

Public forum comes on Tuesday, the eve of UBCM vote on Bill 30
(VICTORIA) Citizens for Public Power will be holding a public forum October
24, 2006 - 7:00pm at the Marriot Hotel in Victoria on the threats to public
ownership of BC’s natural resources, namely hydropower. (more…)

As part of the new category on accumulating micro hydro related information: This is a link to the article that Lisa Richardson wrote back in August 2004. It has some intersting points and gives the Mamquam River as an example for a high impact system. (The Mamquam River in Squamish has 2 small hydro projects—25 and 50 MWH, which is pretty big—and 7 other, smaller projects in its watershed).
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Here is the article in the Georgia Strait that I wanted to post a long time ago.

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