Alaska Hunt Planning: Identifying River Characteristics

[AlaskaHunter]

I liked this 37-minute youtube video: Alaska Hunt Planning: Identifying River Characteristics
Outline:
1:00 Conditions Unfavorable to Floating
2:20 Evaluating Whitewater on Imagery
7:00 Color Infrared Photos
12:44 Evaluating Shallow Water Potential
15:45 Reading a River on Imagery
19:20 Measuring Channel Width for Oar Span
23:00 Reading Braided Rivers
26:30 Downed trees: Sweepers, Strainers, Log Jams
31:00 Water Turbidity
32:30 Glacial Rivers and 3 Potential Problems
34:00 Aufeis
35:35 Portaging
36:00 Conclusion

 

[cedahm]

Great stuff. I personally wish YouTube had been around 25 years ago for the ‘braided’ and ‘sweeper’ sections but I would have missed out on some type 2 fun if it had

 

[Salmonchaser]

Been running rivers in Alaska all of my life, one fashion or another. This is actually very good intel.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Heck yeah, I feel like 80% of my possible hunt locations in AK get shot to hell because of a class 5+ section, that seems to “conveniently” occur exactly where the devils club is thickest.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Heck yeah, I feel like 80% of my possible hunt locations in AK get shot to hell because of a class 5+ section, that seems to “conveniently” occur exactly where the devils club is thickest.

No devils club in interior Alaska...