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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 12 2006,4:36 pm Post # 1 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
What's everybody think of the new "NO WAKE" area in the gorge? I Like it..Never floated through there before because of the danger of getting hit by a 30' plus boat doin 80. Pretty beautiful in there when you can stop an look!! Also what's up with the 4' weeds on the sand bar?

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I agree, much nicer now during the weekend afternoons. :good

It's too bad there are still some people that see it as an annoyance and blast in and blast out......used to be the only time it was peaceful through there was early morning.

One of the best memories I have is the time we floated all the way from Needles to the sandbar.......midweek, of course. :D

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 12 2006,7:29 pm Post # 3 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
I haven't been through there in years!! I think they need to make the whole thing a "No Ski" zone from the Topoc Bridge to the mouth of the river at Lake Havazoo.....

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Quote (Carrera Elite @ Sep. 12 2006,7:29 pm)
....I think they need to make the whole thing a "No Ski" zone from the Topoc Bridge to the mouth of the river at Lake Havazoo.....

It is.... :D
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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 13 2006,7:28 am Post # 5 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
I've seen people do it back there still...I don't remember seeing any signs on the southe end?? :stupid

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 13 2006,8:39 am Post # 6 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
This is what my buddies did to pass the time while we were idling through that part

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I've seen people do it back there still...I don't remember seeing any signs on the southe end?? :stupid

You can "ski" right up to that bouy line that's about 1/4 mile or so above where the river meets the lake.  When you come down from the Sandbar, the headwaters finger out in all directions right at that bouy line.  Back in July, we went dead ahead and Damon when extreme Cali side....

The wakeboarders like the water close to the AZ side; lots of PWC towing around and through the reeds.  You will see skiers and tubers occasionally in the main channel area, which can get dicey with the water level, week-end traffic, etc.  Not the brightest place to play... :rolleyes

They have made much of the backwater area on the AZ side "no wake" above the bouy line, which is a bummer for the Speed Alley peeps, but a good thing overall.  It was mainly the PWC riders tearing things up back there.  I believe the change is as much for boater safety as habitat protection.

We like to idle back in there and find a beach or mini-bar and kick back for awhile.  You could only "hear" the PWC's, racing through the reeds, then they would come around a blind turn at speed.... :eek

Now, it's pretty quiet and peaceful.  You only hear the main channel when a "big baller" runs through, and they have added a muffler/noise abatement ordinance as well.

It is a Wildlife Refuge, after all.... :peace

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That's why we "refuge" there!! :good

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 13 2006,12:12 pm Post # 10 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Hopefully I will get to see how it is thru there this weekend.

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I've seen people do it back there still...I don't remember seeing any signs on the southe end?? :stupid

You can "ski" right up to that bouy line that's about 1/4 mile or so above where the river meets the lake.  When you come down from the Sandbar, the headwaters finger out in all directions right at that bouy line.  Back in July, we went dead ahead and Damon when extreme Cali side....

The wakeboarders like the water close to the AZ side; lots of PWC towing around and through the reeds.  You will see skiers and tubers occasionally in the main channel area, which can get dicey with the water level, week-end traffic, etc.  Not the brightest place to play... :rolleyes

Must be about where the pontoon boat was pulling the tube in circles in the middle of the channel.....  :banghead  :guns

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....Also what's up with the 4' weeds on the sand bar?

All the high/low water flow changes over the past two years... :stupid    I'm guessing, as always.... :beat  :D

Can't ever remember it being that much exposed over the mainy years of running through there.... :eek
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Hopefully I will get to see how it is thru there this weekend.

Hey Zig,


WHere are you staying this weekend??

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Quote (Ziggy @ Sep. 13 2006,12:12 pm)
Hopefully I will get to see how it is thru there this weekend.

Hey Zig,


WHere are you staying this weekend??

Our Havi house...........
you gonna be out?

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Quote (Ziggy @ Sep. 13 2006,12:12 pm)
Hopefully I will get to see how it is thru there this weekend.

Hey Zig,


WHere are you staying this weekend??

Our Havi house...........
you gonna be out?

Yup... Outta Needles, but we might hit up copper.  Where ya goin to hang out!  Or where should I be lookin for your boat??

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