Comments on: Rafting the Smith River, Presidents Day Weekend http://blog.aorafting.com/smith-river-rafting/ Read up on everything related to whitewater rafting on California rivers with All-Outdoors Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:02:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: janasmama http://blog.aorafting.com/smith-river-rafting/#comment-5494 janasmama Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:44:58 +0000 http://blog.aorafting.com/smith-river-rafting/#comment-5494 Reading this adventure story about the Smith River brings back such fond memories of my own Smith River trip. It's too bad you guys didn't get to see the North Fork as that was my favorite run (although we didn't do the South Fork). We ran the North Fork of the Smith at near flood stage. I'm not sure of the cfs but the gauge at put-in was reading about 14 feet. It rained non-stop and we were just below the snow line so it was freezing. We had a raft flip on a monstrous wave and it took quite sometime to retrieve paddles and people as there were no eddies. The paddlers had to climb on to walls to get out of the river, only to jump back in because the rafts were headed downstream....so glad I was in the boat that decided to paddle harder after seeing how big the wave was next to the raft! I hope I will see the Smith River again, it is a beautifully unique river, worth every moment to be there. Reading this adventure story about the Smith River brings back such fond memories of my own Smith River trip. It’s too bad you guys didn’t get to see the North Fork as that was my favorite run (although we didn’t do the South Fork). We ran the North Fork of the Smith at near flood stage. I’m not sure of the cfs but the gauge at put-in was reading about 14 feet.

It rained non-stop and we were just below the snow line so it was freezing. We had a raft flip on a monstrous wave and it took quite sometime to retrieve paddles and people as there were no eddies. The paddlers had to climb on to walls to get out of the river, only to jump back in because the rafts were headed downstream….so glad I was in the boat that decided to paddle harder after seeing how big the wave was next to the raft!

I hope I will see the Smith River again, it is a beautifully unique river, worth every moment to be there.

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