Early Saturday morning the Eugene/Corvallis crew was on I5N heading to the Gorge. Picking up the rest of ORT along the way, the team headed over the Columbia and up into White Salmon.
Scouting Husum on the way up, we arrived at the Farmlands barn, suited up, and hucked the boats into the gorge below barely 2 boats wide.
Blasting down through the canyon, we wheelied the boats over one log portage and skirted the other. After some great class 3 water, a portage at Lava, and some good (and not so good) lines at Off Ramp we arrived at the Truss bridge.
While Dr. Frankenstein and No Karl were rigging the boats at the bottom with some cams, Professor hooked up a winch cable to the bow and throwbag to the stern, to assist in pulling the boats up the 40ft vertical wall. After the boats were on the trailer the crew headed down to the BZ put-in for some R6 training in the Super D. Clean lines and ever-improving paddling technique got us to Husum in good time. We lined up and dug in above the drop and entered just left of the boof line, not missing a stroke.
Circuit training followed at the takeout, with Nick (kayak support) looking on in confused admiration.
