Heavy rains late yesterday right before and after the metro area fireworks and then into the night, flushed out Sixx at dawn; however the flow is dropping and appears will be surfable soon or is surfable now. Benni’s might be in. Chiclets will be foam piled out for a bit this morning. Will update later if they change the dam release but cross our fingers for a bump up after the rains into the S Platte and Chatfield.
Keep an eye on the RRP gauge (droping down towards 300cfs or so) and Six Pole Cam for a cleaning up wave…
RRP gauge (click on raw/all values then table view for 15 min updates to flow levels): https://dwr.state.co.us/Tools/StationsLite/PLAUNICO?params=DISCHRG
Sixx Pole Cam: https://www.senserasystems.com/public/embed/3M7824646H83
Golden seems to not have got the rain and is surfable but very cold water. Co-editor of the Report surfed Bingo yesterday on his 5’7” Flash w/ a twin fin set-up.
RIVER SURF TIP: There can be dead zones off the corners of the RRP waves that are hard to swim out of. Sometimes they act as a powerful suction back behind and into the wave. If caught in these areas, keep calm, if you can’t swim out, let yourself get close to the back of the wave or work your way to the wave train behind the main wave to get flushed down stream to be free’d of the dead zone. If you see someone right off the corner of the wave, sometimes you can hand them the nose of your board to pull themselves out of the dead zone or you can toss them an unleashed board if they are stuck in a big dead zone (such as high flow days at “Big Benni’s”)…. Before you surf any wave: assess the wave, the eddys, and look for dead zones to be aware of how to react safely. Also be that safety for your fellow surfer by watching where they are in relationship to the dead zones.
SURF TRIVIA: Name the most stylish female longboard surfer who at a young age has been a world champion.
PRIOR SURF TRIVIA ANSWER: A “cheater five” is a hang five toes off the nose of the board from a low stance with the front foot extended out to the nose. It is cheating compared to a longboarder up completely on the nose hanging five. But a cheater five is very stylish and throws back to an era of fast down the line longboarding almost forgotten from the 1960’s that was invented and popularized by Hawaii’s Paul Strauch.
LBK
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