Been Digging wrote:
I was curious about the one of the Cross Waterfall. I wouldn't have guessed it was that dangerous from the picture; it looks like a ledge a few feet high. I was wondering what made this such a dangerous feature.
On these Northern Rivers the look of a river in Mid-summer (a dry one at that) would not give you much idea of what the river would be like during Spring breakup. I don't know the details of this particular memorial but no doubt it is for a local trapper, logger or surveyor. Of course anyone can drown even in quite a mild rapid, get lazy, go sideways, flip, smash your head, drown......
This rapid on the Pipestone
In early May that big rock might be many feet underwater creating a giant wave.
This big lump of water on the Broadback I would estimate at around 10 - 12 feet high, flow rates were very high but still well below peak. It was near the opposite shore about 100 metres away
Here's a closeup
Ben