{"id":6888,"date":"2011-03-14T07:08:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2011-03-14T07:08:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:08:57","slug":"northwest-waterfall-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/northwest-waterfall-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Waterfall Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One month ago I bought a ticket to Portland with the plan of running a couple rivers throughout Oregon. Currently I am more then halfway though my nine day trip and I have rune more vertical feet than most people have run in their life.<\/p>\n<p>The first day I got picked up from the airport after waking up at 3am to get on the plane. We quickly drove to Eagle Creek and Kyle Hull and I ran 35 foot Punchbowl falls and 90 foot Metlako falls. It was around 6.00 when we ran the falls so the light was too low to film.<a title=\"topmetlakosteve\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/topmetlakosteve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-6946 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/topmetlakosteve.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"topmetlakosteve\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day I ran Upper and Lower Bridal Veil Falls. The Upper drop was supposedly navigated twice before. The Upper falls is about 60 feet with an auto-boof halfway down. The bottom drop is a 30 to 40 foot slide. I scouted the drop briefly and decided to run it. The lip of the top drop was gigantic. The crowd at the bottom had to be 100 feet down. Luckily I had great lines on both drops.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"upper-bridalveil2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/upper-bridalveil2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-6947 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/upper-bridalveil2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"upper-bridalveil2\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After, John Hyland, Kyle Hull, and I traveled to the Little White Salmon. This classic creek is a gem. The water was high, but nonetheless we headed down the river. This has to be my new favorite creek. Kyle and I ran every rapid including Sprit falls, a monstrous 30 footer with a very dangerous rapid called chaos right after. We both had good lines.<\/p>\n<p>The next two days were spent Southeast of Hood River on the Mckenzie River. Kyle hull and I ended up running 75 foot Koosah falls and 85-foot Sahalie Falls. Both had difficult lips. Our lines were good though.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0904\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0904.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-6942 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0904.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0904\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><a title=\"sahaliesteve\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sahaliesteve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-6944 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sahaliesteve.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"sahaliesteve\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, John, Kyle, and I went to Celestial falls, a clean fifty footer. We ran our boats in, hoping not to get spotted by the locals and we were successful. Celestial falls is a great drop for an introduction to hucking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"stephencelestialpaddletoss\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stephencelestialpaddletoss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-6945 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stephencelestialpaddletoss.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"stephencelestialpaddletoss\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last day I was in Oregon I went back to Eagle Creek. My goal was to run Metlako 5-8 times in a day. The water was ridiculously high the morning I woke up.\u00c2\u00a0 I hiked up to check out Metlako Falls and it looked pretty good. I ran back down to the car, did the two-mile hike with my boat, above Metlako and started hucking. I ended up running this infamous 102-foot drop 6 times that day. The only battle scar I came out with was a gash and a black eye.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"metlakosidesteve\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/metlakosidesteve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-6943 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/metlakosidesteve.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"metlakosidesteve\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It definitely was not fun leaving this amazing place. The quality of waterfalls and rivers is astounding. Hopefully I will get to go back this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month ago I bought a ticket to Portland with the plan of running a couple rivers throughout Oregon. Currently I am more then halfway though my nine day trip and I have rune more vertical feet than most people have run in their life. 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