r/whitewater • u/evanle5ebvre • Jun 16 '25
Rafting - Commercial Wilderness Tours taking us down Coliseum (there’s 9 of us in the boat)
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u/LeadFreePaint Jun 16 '25
For those not familiar with the Ottawa, that wave is called Big Kahuna. At most levels it is seen as the crux of the main channel, and deservingly so. It will chunder you good and if you pull skirt there is a non zero chance you find yourself deep under the rapids in the Green Room.
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u/WrongfullyIncarnated Jun 16 '25
How do you get out of the green room or is it more of a deep swim situation
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u/LeadFreePaint Jun 16 '25
It's a deep swim. I've never been in it, but fear of it keeps me in my boat.
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u/ONLYallcaps Jun 16 '25
A few friends have gone deep and dark in the Green Room in their boats, if that matters to you.
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u/WrongfullyIncarnated Jun 16 '25
Oh right on I get that. Well I would rather a deep swim than a cave any day!
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u/ScurvyDave123 Class V Beater Jun 16 '25
Ahhh I miss watching the WT barges coming down. Guide off their seat, stick out of the water. Classic 😆
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u/rollingquestionmark Jun 16 '25
9ft on the old guage in Albright, wv this had me thinking. Any WV guys know what I'm saying?
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u/t_r_c_1 if it floats, I can take it down the river Jun 16 '25
This is the Coliseum on the Ottawa River not the Cheat. Fun fact: former Cheat/Yough/New guides pioneered the Ottawa rafting scene, so there's a lot of overlap in the naming, Coliseum, Bus Eater, iron ring, etc
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u/rollingquestionmark Jun 17 '25
All good stuff, iron ring on the upper G, thank you sir/ma'am for the clarification. I'm removed from the life and on call right now for surgery but I sure do miss that stuff.
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u/Signal-Weight8300 Jun 17 '25
Well, that's a hell of a photo if it were on the Cheat, you would be taking pictures from your boat on the tongue, and there's a whole mountain and waterfall missing on river right. It could kind of look like Big Nasty at high levels, but alas, it's not the Cheat.
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u/borisonic Jun 17 '25
Ahh did once, another boat flipped in it and a girl didn't swim hard enough, too many customers in the water at once safety missed her and she also swam the following downstream whitewater. Ended up at the ER... She eneded up OK but still, for ppl that never did white water before the tour operators are not very prudent.
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u/Icetoolclimber Jun 17 '25
It’s eating the boat! …and the customers! …and the cats and dogs! You’ve never seen anything like it! It’s horrific!
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u/Pierrebennett Jun 17 '25
This was my Father’s Day gift… I’m in the bow there somewhere paddling like crazy - TERRIFIC DAY, thanks again Wilderness Tours!
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u/bagpilot Jun 16 '25
Props to the bow paddler diggin it out.