04-11-2013, 08:33 PM
easy answer is "it varies".
If I read you right - sounds like you're referring to the Cache Junction bridge at the northern end of Cutler. From there to the dam - you'll probably find around 8ft depth in the middle of the channel.
It does get shallower in various places, but once you get up to the steeper canyon walls it gets deeper and deeper as you get up toward the dam itself. Don't recall exactly, but I think it's on order of 30 ft depth, though there's an orange barrier that keeps you away from the dam itself.
folks do take ski boats up there. Bit too narrow to pass at wakeless speed, but they don't care about that...
Be warned though - there are various hazards, old pylons, submerged rocks. Just adds to the adventure.
Don't think there's a HP limit at that end.
I believe it's everything south of the wooden trestle bridge by the Benson launch that has the speed/power limit. So pretty much from Benson to the Valley View and anything south of Valley View, what they call the Maze (for good reason!). There's some Pacificorp signs near the sportsman's access points that covers the A-B-C zones.
Maybe I'll try to snap a photo of the sign and post it.
Now at the Benson launch there is no speed limit, or proximity laws in place whatsoever. Or if you ever find yourself out there with a crew of jet-skies, it'll seem to be that way!
You got me googling, so I just answered a question that's been on the brain - 1927 is when they built the dam.
[url "http://www.bridgerlandaudubon.org/wetlandsmaze/history.html"]Cutler History[/url]
[inline Cutler_projmap-4.gif]
If I read you right - sounds like you're referring to the Cache Junction bridge at the northern end of Cutler. From there to the dam - you'll probably find around 8ft depth in the middle of the channel.
It does get shallower in various places, but once you get up to the steeper canyon walls it gets deeper and deeper as you get up toward the dam itself. Don't recall exactly, but I think it's on order of 30 ft depth, though there's an orange barrier that keeps you away from the dam itself.
folks do take ski boats up there. Bit too narrow to pass at wakeless speed, but they don't care about that...
Be warned though - there are various hazards, old pylons, submerged rocks. Just adds to the adventure.
Don't think there's a HP limit at that end.
I believe it's everything south of the wooden trestle bridge by the Benson launch that has the speed/power limit. So pretty much from Benson to the Valley View and anything south of Valley View, what they call the Maze (for good reason!). There's some Pacificorp signs near the sportsman's access points that covers the A-B-C zones.
Maybe I'll try to snap a photo of the sign and post it.
Now at the Benson launch there is no speed limit, or proximity laws in place whatsoever. Or if you ever find yourself out there with a crew of jet-skies, it'll seem to be that way!
You got me googling, so I just answered a question that's been on the brain - 1927 is when they built the dam.
[url "http://www.bridgerlandaudubon.org/wetlandsmaze/history.html"]Cutler History[/url]
[inline Cutler_projmap-4.gif]