| February 22, 2007 |
Films from The Range Life, Bread and Butter Media, and others will be showing as part of the 9th annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. There’ll also be a presentation on microhydro threats to BC rivers, including the Ashlu River. The films will be showing at the Anza Club in downtown Vancouver. Doors open at 6:30, and the event starts at 7:30. Cost is $15.
It’s happened to all of us – you get to a favorite section of river or play spot and find a big ‘ol log, tree, strainer, root ball, or other annoying woody object wedged, obstructing, impeding, blocking, or generally in the way of your favorite river feature. What to do? Well, most of us back in the good ‘ol days would grab our breakdown folding saw or chainsaw and simply remove the offending lumber.
This very incident went through our minds last December when Eric and I surveyed the latest storm damage on our favorite Bellingham section of whitewater – the Horseshoe Bend section of the North Fork Nooksack. Now, I’m not trying to sound particular here, but you have to understand – this is our favorite section of rapids on one of our favorite rivers in this land of limited guaranteed paddling sections to explore after work on any day of the year! Let me explain a little about what things looked like.
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