Blossom Bar rescue July 2014, about 1500CFS
During our private trip on the Rouge River we came upon another group that had wrapped a raft on a rock at the top of Blossom Bar. My friend and I hatched a plan to free the boat from the rock. Here is the rescue.
Before starting this rescue we set up safety upstream to stop anyone else from running the rapid while the rescue was going on. We also sent a couple of boats from our party to talk with the group to make sure everyone was ok and to tell them what our plan was. It was our original plan to cut the rope after it had been freed from the rock. We knew that the yellow webbing isn't redundant and that the angle in which the load was put on it was very steep. We had some concerns of it failing and knew it was not ideal but we had to work with what we had. The webbing was secured on the other side of the rock by two climbing nuts to ensure that the webbing wouldn't ride up and slid off. The inflatable kayak live bait was key to getting the rope on the wrapped boat.
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