Stand Up Paddleboarding the Entire Verde River of Arizona - Episode 5
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Paddling a SUP down the entire length of the Verde River, Arizona from Sullivan Lake itself to the Salt River during the large floods of Spring 2023. Episode 5 of Follow the Flood travels from a beautiful riverside camp near my friends (Deb and Matt) property where I became stuck as waters rose, to Bignotti RAP. Soon thereafter over six inches of rain would fall, with snowpack located in the higher elevations, releasing massive flooding around Northern, Az and flooding the lakes as well as destroying recreation areas within and to the South of the Mazatal Wilderness. Special thanks to Christi and Wade for allowing access to their private land near Beasley Flat!
I’m glad to see you two made it safe. That is Wade and I at Beasley Flats. We let you and your friend cross out property so you could get the footage at the picnic area. Great video.
Yes!!! Haha I was going to send you a message, just got this up late last night and thought of you both. I put you both in this videos description as that was awesome we ran into you and were able to go onto your land. Kevin and I went around capturing all the flooding knowing way back then folks would want to see what it looked like. Once I continued onward I was solo all the way to the Salt, and just kept stalling in the Mazatal wilderness section while levels at the dams came down. Anyway hope your staying cool out there!
Episode 5! Thanks for all the footage around that time. I only got to a couple RAPs to see it live. I finally got to see Beasley. Thanks man!
@JeddJohnsonw yeah for sure... you know how crazy that was haha. I missed the road getting annihilated at Beasley years ago when it happened but certainly this time at the very peak I got a few moments watching verde coming into that final bend above beasley rap and it was the Mississippi haha, just became so powerful not only wide but so incredibly fast. Stoked this all got documented glad folks also like to see these non whitewater bits of vid as well.
Glad you recorded all this, seeing the Verde rising up to thouse houses blew my mind
@DuneJumper it got so wild... I think it was right around when the oak creek bridge in cornville area got damaged and right near where the Beaver Creek confluence with Verde is... the homes between west clear and beasley got flooded too as they had huge air machines drying those places out as I pass by... I think in next one I have footage of that too... those places I've past for 20 years and they so high and far from river but didn't escape this flood as just so intense
Episode 5 is the latest upload? I cannot wait to see more. This is the best documentation of the complete Verde experience I have ever seen -the floods and strainers, the changing characteristics. Thank you for sharing it.
@DouglasGreen562 cheers man it's so cool folks are liking this. I honestly felt it was going to be too much footage long etc and everyone wants 30 second vids and stuff but I thought I'm just going to do it not any attention but because I'm stoked! So I'm just going to make it however I want if nobody watches ok and so real happy this is fun to watch. There are plenty more episodes to go for sure, a few I think may be standouts are when I get to what probably be episode 7, as below beasley I hit big whitewater and drop the 5 foot plus drop over verde falls standing with like 70lbs of gear on deck haha and the real scary bad pin the third pin of the trip happens below horseshoe dam as the dam was releasing. The entire trip I literally feared exactly what happen there and it did and I end up saved because I keep that collapsible saw on my vest and I end up needing that to cut out the sup mid river in a pin while standing in a tree so that was really no bueno... but most whitewater and remote wilderness will pump up big once below Beasley Flat... which again I think I have out within few months worst case...
Wow, that's crazy. I grew up around there, never saw anything like it. Good thing you werent past beasley when that happened. I did all the section from Tapco to Beasley a couple years ago.
@dustman96 yeah logistically it was all very dialed and conditions expected when it blew up. Most of my moves required a bunch of timings and logistics to avoid as you said getting into the Mazatals where no resupply possible. Another big obstacle was that both Horseshoe and Bartlett Dams were in full release so later into the series you will see how I deal with that. I saw this happening and gassed it into the Verde, stalled, got into the Maz, stall to allow dams mellow out and punch towards Salt. Really rare what occured here for sure
This high water after snow melting or heavy rains? I'm from Russia and our rivers go up after melting and it looks very similary as your river in Arizona
@orlovconst8961 cheers for following the videos! It is as you said, the snow melting. We get a compounded effect that we call a rain on snow event. The river is much lower in elevation than many tributaries that are large, and go north into mountains where snow has fallen all winter. What happened here was a large amount of snow in that northern country that fell during a powerful winter rapidly melted in early Spring when the temperatures warmed up enough that a massive amount of rain came and this rain just kept going and going. With all that rain falling, and it falling in the higher elevations melting the snow up there rapidly, it let go all that snow in such a short time and it all flowed from all the tributaries into this river, the Verde River and things went crazy. We measure flow on usa rivers in cubic feet a second or CFS. One of our largest rivers for instance, is the Colorado River. That river flows from the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and it's watershed is huge. At the peak the Verde was flowing 5x plus the Colorado River at its lower flows.... all pumping through a river that is much smaller. The resulting flood was both destructive and being honest really phenomenal in many ways to see simply as is the power of nature always so impressive...
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Are there big flathead in that part of the river?
@rickygoodman1294 definetly can find both flathead and channel in that section of Verde. From what I'm told the best area for those is below Horseshoe dam. I will go through this section much later in the series, and while camped at Horseshoe Lake I ran into a number of folks saying it was a good area in there below the dam...