Massive landslide on the upper Sultan (+video).

[aoby]

On Saturday the entire canyon wall caved in and dammed the river, only minutes after we paddled through. Details and video at http://www.kayakingsucks.com/sultan/sultan.html.

Amazingly, nobody was crushed under hundreds of tons of rock and dirt. Even more amazing is that nobody suffered a single injury during our 3 hour boat haul and hike out in the dark.

-Andrew

[localpaddler]

Andrew ....That is totally crazy. That should be on TV news or something.
I can't believe you guys where there for that.

[aoby]

It will be. I sent King 5 an email last night and they just contacted me for footage and an interview. Stay tuned for details (and hopefully a recording of the news broadcast).

[localpaddler]

That's awesome.

[mike18]

That is unbelievable. Thank god you guys are all o.k. You just took extreme kayaking to a whole new level.

[rterry]

I found the boulder projectiles particularly terrifying.

rt

[bodyboatblade]

Drew thanks for posting the footage! What a crazy day that must have been. I can't wait to hear the details.

Bryan

[aoby]

The news clip:

http://www.king5.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.king5.com/ki_121304landslide.wmv

Enjoy. Of course they had to mess something up. Only a 30 foot climb out? That shouldn't have been so hard. It seemed more like 300 to me ;-)

[bigjeff]

We had rivers and gorges like you guys, but then again looking at that vid, glad we dont.

good thing everyones ok, pity about the river getting blocked though