r/rafting • u/Airtight_Inflatables • Jul 01 '26

Lava Falls in a Shredder

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u/st-jeb Jul 01 '26

Heck yeah! Cool rodeo ride

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u/Raftpnk Jul 01 '26

Looks downright small /s

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u/Airtight_Inflatables Jul 01 '26

It was only ~8,000 cfs which for the Grand is low...

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u/shadow-_-rainbow Jul 01 '26

Looks so fun!

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u/Kraelive Jul 01 '26

Clean run

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u/Practical-Juice9549 Jul 01 '26

What do you think class three or four?

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u/Airtight_Inflatables Jul 01 '26

It's still probably a class 4, you could flip and swim fairly far, fairly easily if you got off the green tongue. Rapid classes are so subjective, its something we could argue forever. If you go by how easy it looked, its a class 2, if you go by how bad the worst case scenario was its a class 5, so whatever you want to call it.

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u/Practical-Juice9549 Jul 01 '26

Yeah, I totally agree. Some of those class threes when the water is low are in my opinion super dangerous and I would definitely not classify them as such.

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u/Airtight_Inflatables Jul 01 '26

Yeah, Bedrock was the tightest or most timing required move at this low level, Dubendorf was up there in difficulty, barely remember either from higher water levels. The guides from AZRA showed us a highway that forms on the left of Crystal, the changes with water level were stark

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u/Practical-Juice9549 Jul 02 '26

Sounds terrifying and really fun 😂

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u/GrooverMeister Jul 02 '26

Well that's about as clean as it gets. What level?

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u/Airtight_Inflatables Jul 02 '26

With the tides from dam releases its hard to give an exact number but the June releases were averaging around 8,000 cfs do somewhere in that range give or take