alusul
07-25-2007, 05:26 PM
Headed down to the blackhole yesterday w/ a friend of mine who hadn't been there before. Had a decent amount more flow than during the n00bfest, suited up a couple sections earlier. We noticed the marks on the sign said no logjams as of 7/7/07
Was fun negotiating through a lot more sections that had flowing water poring through. I was a bit concerned about the black hole section as a I remembered a few chock stones seemed to require swimming under if the water level was any higher but didn't think that would be a show stopper.
We got to the hand line thats tied to a log to enter the black hole section (water pounding us as we went down that) that starts with a logjam we went under in the n00bfest. The logjam had so much water flowing into it there was nothing to see but foam and seemed to be almost filled to the brim. So we climbed to the top of this log jam, only to be surprised by the most stale, rank, awful, uninspiring water I've ever seen :puke:. It was basically a "green room" As I'm trying to work out why our log jammed area is fine, and pumping water into this room but everything in there is stale I notice that the crack to the next section has one log in it... about 30 feet at least (it was my whole field of view) 2 -3 feet wide vertically placed in the crack, with a few inch wide window several feet from the pool.
There appeared to be no way around it, though we did not enter the room as this logjam seemed quite overhung, and we had only webbing to setup the reverse (do-able, but a lot of time in green goop to get back). Unfortunately with the smell overpowering us we retreated without even taking a photo of the log. The hike back up canyon was fun with all that water and made some interesting reverse challanges but not much so all in all it was a good trip.
I would have liked to have solved this log jam, but seemed rather difficult to dislodge such a massive log without a crow bar or dynamite (how the hell did it get there? did I just forget this? other log jams looked similar, handline was the same, part we went under seemed the same but maybe the logjams just usually form similarly)
Only thing I could think of is that there was a swim under this log we couldn't see. The complete lack of motion in the pool and the lower water on the other side that I could see through the 'window' made this seem dubious though.
Didn't leave a note on the board as we had nothing to write it with, if anyone feels this is serious please mark it for us if you go by.
-John
Was fun negotiating through a lot more sections that had flowing water poring through. I was a bit concerned about the black hole section as a I remembered a few chock stones seemed to require swimming under if the water level was any higher but didn't think that would be a show stopper.
We got to the hand line thats tied to a log to enter the black hole section (water pounding us as we went down that) that starts with a logjam we went under in the n00bfest. The logjam had so much water flowing into it there was nothing to see but foam and seemed to be almost filled to the brim. So we climbed to the top of this log jam, only to be surprised by the most stale, rank, awful, uninspiring water I've ever seen :puke:. It was basically a "green room" As I'm trying to work out why our log jammed area is fine, and pumping water into this room but everything in there is stale I notice that the crack to the next section has one log in it... about 30 feet at least (it was my whole field of view) 2 -3 feet wide vertically placed in the crack, with a few inch wide window several feet from the pool.
There appeared to be no way around it, though we did not enter the room as this logjam seemed quite overhung, and we had only webbing to setup the reverse (do-able, but a lot of time in green goop to get back). Unfortunately with the smell overpowering us we retreated without even taking a photo of the log. The hike back up canyon was fun with all that water and made some interesting reverse challanges but not much so all in all it was a good trip.
I would have liked to have solved this log jam, but seemed rather difficult to dislodge such a massive log without a crow bar or dynamite (how the hell did it get there? did I just forget this? other log jams looked similar, handline was the same, part we went under seemed the same but maybe the logjams just usually form similarly)
Only thing I could think of is that there was a swim under this log we couldn't see. The complete lack of motion in the pool and the lower water on the other side that I could see through the 'window' made this seem dubious though.
Didn't leave a note on the board as we had nothing to write it with, if anyone feels this is serious please mark it for us if you go by.
-John