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dev870
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 Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:05 pm Post subject: boat launches on the smoky |
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Anyone know if there's any boat launches on the smoky river between GP and Grande Cache? I see the road crosses it a couple times, as well as how much water there is and rapids etc?
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mountainman
Joined: 15 Jan 2006
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Location: Grande Prairie, Alberta
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Smoky flats on the Canfor road, one at the bridge just before Grande Cache, there is some shoots between smoky flats and Grande Cache. |
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dev870
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh awesome, thanks. Are the chutes upstream from where the Kakwa joins? Is there plenty of water this time of year? I'm in a 16' explorer. |
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mountainman
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Location: Grande Prairie, Alberta
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Chutes are close to the kakwa from what I know. Been close but not to them, pretty good shelves to climb in spots, water levels will be low right now. |
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dev870
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok. too shallow to run you figure? My boat will run pretty shallow but just a 90/65hp yamaha outboard jet. I guess I could run down from the flats, it should be less white water. |
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mountainman
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Location: Grande Prairie, Alberta
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Depends on your confidence / skill level... Water is low this year, take a run and decide. You can go a fair ways before it gets to a point it's a go/no go situation... |
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dev870
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Haha well I do get ballsier than I should. But if it's quite a ways I'd try it out. Downstream should be fine? Has all the water from kakwa and cutbank |
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Will R
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Location: NWT/Alberta
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Get a hold of Larry hodges(fx87 on forum) he'll show you da way!
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dev870
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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just got back from the smoky. made it up past the kakwa, spent a week up there and on the way out the river had dropped and smacked lots of rocks. It was a mine field in places. Won't be going up that far again and wouldn't recommend it. Nice country though  |
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fx87
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| I have gone up and recovered. 2 sunk boats and 2 broke down.Got back last night from there. |
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dev870
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:08 am Post subject: |
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| That doesn't surprise me. I was pin balling in there in places. Near the cutbank was terrible. How did you fair? |
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christaarron
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Well the same question was there in my mind when I heard about it first. To experience this I am going there next month. I am sure it is going to be fun.
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garyblue
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| How's the experience? |
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