BasinCruiser
06-01-2020, 04:26 AM
https://www.ksl.com/article/46759267/bystanders-help-rescue-family-out-of-river-in-logan-canyon
The wife and I went up Logan canyon on Saturday, with the plan to climb Naomi peak from Tony grove lake, completly underestimating the amount of snow still up there. Ended up hiking around in the snow up to White Pine lake.
Anyway, going up and down Logan canyon, we were impressed and in awe with the amount of water flowing down the river, the force and flow of it was quite incredible. The last few years, i've been trying to influence my wife to get into river kayaking, even renting a couple from WSU a couple of times. But, she's been pretty against it, feeling very closterphobic in the sit in kayak, and also not very warm to the idea of the sit on top kind, either. However, the last month or so, I've been itching to get out on the river, and been changing my tactic to suggesting we do ww rafting, instead, which she has been much more open to, and considering.
As we were driving up/down the canyon, we saw several cars with ww kayaks on top, as well as a few spots with several kayakers walking alongside the road scouting out the river, which prompted her to bring up the topic again of getting into rafting, and how she would feel somewhat comfortable going with me down the river in those conditions, but not by herself, especially in a kayak. I wasn't so sure i would have wanted to be going down the Logan R that day, much to the fact of the relatively low hanging treed branches that in many spots reached out across most of the river with less than a foot or two of clearance across the whole width.
Then, I see this article of this minivan that ended up in the river, less than an hour from when we had descended down the canyon. Crazy how a story like this can hit you with a little more impact when it happens within a very close timeframe of when you were actually at or near the same location.
Curious what methods they used to extract the van passengers out of the van. ???
The wife and I went up Logan canyon on Saturday, with the plan to climb Naomi peak from Tony grove lake, completly underestimating the amount of snow still up there. Ended up hiking around in the snow up to White Pine lake.
Anyway, going up and down Logan canyon, we were impressed and in awe with the amount of water flowing down the river, the force and flow of it was quite incredible. The last few years, i've been trying to influence my wife to get into river kayaking, even renting a couple from WSU a couple of times. But, she's been pretty against it, feeling very closterphobic in the sit in kayak, and also not very warm to the idea of the sit on top kind, either. However, the last month or so, I've been itching to get out on the river, and been changing my tactic to suggesting we do ww rafting, instead, which she has been much more open to, and considering.
As we were driving up/down the canyon, we saw several cars with ww kayaks on top, as well as a few spots with several kayakers walking alongside the road scouting out the river, which prompted her to bring up the topic again of getting into rafting, and how she would feel somewhat comfortable going with me down the river in those conditions, but not by herself, especially in a kayak. I wasn't so sure i would have wanted to be going down the Logan R that day, much to the fact of the relatively low hanging treed branches that in many spots reached out across most of the river with less than a foot or two of clearance across the whole width.
Then, I see this article of this minivan that ended up in the river, less than an hour from when we had descended down the canyon. Crazy how a story like this can hit you with a little more impact when it happens within a very close timeframe of when you were actually at or near the same location.
Curious what methods they used to extract the van passengers out of the van. ???