Launch Ramp contrast

[QC]

I used to assume that launch conditions were a little more universal than they are. When I posted a pic of a mega ramp at Lake Mead in a power loading thread, I realized that many of you had never seen ramps that may stretch for close to a half mile. I travel some for work, and if I have extra time I always check out Marinas and launch ramps. This trip I was north of Sacramento CA, and I went over to Lake Oroville, and then cruised along the Feather River. I thought maybe these ramp pics would be of interest. I think the Lake must be over 200 ft down.

Lake Oroville "Spillway Ramp(s)" from the top:

And a couple for scale from the bottom:

And then for contrast, a little ramp on the Feather:

 

[bruceb58]

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Lake Oroville is an interesting lake. Water levels can fluctuate 10s of feet in a day. It was close to full pool in 2011. It is drained drastically between summer and winter usually, often more that 100 feet.

 

[QC]

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Reminded me a lot of Shasta. There was no fee to enter although there was a box for launch fees. They let you drive right across the dam, and the spillway. Both pretty impressive:

 

[lncoop]

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Wow. That water is so beautiful it looks fake. Azure.

 

[QC]

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The last one is a little enhanced by Microsoft Pics. It was pretty close to that blue though. Very pretty day, very little wind, blue sky, all contributed.

 

[lncoop]

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Speaking of ramp contrast; here's some.

 

[theBrownskull]

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Wow that is a ramp. Nothing like that in MN unless your trying to unload in an old mine pit.

 

[64osby]

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Speaking of ramp contrast; here's some.

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This is a little more rustic than our local launch, but not by much. We do have a some concrete strips at the water.

 

[roscoe]

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Here is a launch I use, it extends 1/4 miles on each side of the 12' wooden pier.

 

[jigngrub]

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Oh hell yeah!!!... earthquakes and lakes going dry in 1 day, you can have my share of that!

... at least y'all have palm trees and movie stars eh?!!!


.............. and the San Andreas fault.....

 

[bruceb58]

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Oh hell yeah!!!... earthquakes and lakes going dry in 1 day, you can have my share of that!

... at least y'all have palm trees and movie stars eh?!!!


.............. and the San Andreas fault.....

That's ok...we have too many people here already.

 

[lncoop]

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Wow that is a ramp. Nothing like that in MN unless your trying to unload in an old mine pit.

That's on the White River. We had a "hundred year flood" blow through there a few years ago. The ramp is not nearly that nice now. Just about impossible to use it any more if you don't have 4WD.

 

[Sabbath]

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Here's a couple from Oz.

Small ramp going into Lake Tyers at Lakes Entrance with my old boat

Lake Eildon. Have had a fair few years of not much rain, so the lake got pretty empty. This pic was from the start of this year. Red line shows where the water level was up to when i was there, as you can see, a secondary ramp had to be built to accomodate for the lower water level.

And as it sits today