[at-l] 2003 Rain Year

[wdlists at optonline.net (Walter Daniels)]

Techical kayaker terms not hiking terms.
Wave train is a series of standing waves in the stream
Strainer is things like blowdowns across the stream that filter out
kayakers, in the worst case tipping them over and trapping them below water
level.

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> From: at-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net 
> [mailto:at-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:49 PM
> To: Steve Landis
> Cc: AT-L
> Subject: Re: [at-l] 2003 Rain Year
> 
> 
> Hi, Little help on vernacular please
> what's a 'wave train'?
> what's a 'strainer'?
> Thanks!!
> (sorry to be asking newbie-type questions!)
> 
> Steve Landis wrote:
> > The Trail near the Scott Farm at the bridge is under water. The
> > Conodoquinet Creek is over it's banks and we are expecting a 
> > thunderstorm tonight.  While scouting the creek for a 
> possible paddle 
> > today ran into a couple of day hikers there who were hiking 
> from Boiling 
> > Springs to Wertzville Road who had to bushwhack around the 
> flooding.  I 
> > ended up doing a short paddle on Mountain Creek which is running at 
> > Class III today but had to cut it short because I was alone 
> and the wave 
> > train going thru Mt Holly Springs was full of strainers and it just 
> > wasn't safe.
> > 
> > Steve
> James P. ('Jim') Lynch
> jplynch@crosslink.net
> 
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