JSJ1
Active Member
So I finally got to see the new "Bullfrog island ramp" (as I like to call it) and it sucks!! It'll get you in the water, if you're really carefull, for a few more feet but plain and simple that was just simply terrible planning and decision making on who ever called the shots on that one and it sucks!!
Hats off to the folks that worked so hard and diligently to build it where they were told, but its extremely short and steep (and I mean steep!!) and theres a pretty shallow area not to far out. If somebody would have taken the time to graph it they would have known.
I was hoping the pics I was seeing were playing tricks on me about the location but nope! It's right in damn near the same spot we were launching the last time the water got this low and that is just not a good location if you have a couple dozers, at your disposal, and can put it where ever you want! I would have thought the park service with all there access to boats, and I would imagine depth finders, would have scoped the area and put it in the best spot possible for longer term use. Nope, nope, nope!!
The obvious spot is directly on the oppisite side of the Bullfrog main ramp where there is a nice grade for a longer term ramp and accessibilty.
Well, low and behold, the powers in charge of making all of the good decisions at Powell (and probably lots of other places they've actually never seen) must have figured that out cause when I was there yesterday, looking at it with my own eyes, the dozers were busy moving dirt to get after spending another two months building a ramp where it should have gone in the first place!!!!! (I hope, it feels like I need to go down and check on them every couple days just to make sure)
Hats off to the folks that worked so hard and diligently to build it where they were told, but its extremely short and steep (and I mean steep!!) and theres a pretty shallow area not to far out. If somebody would have taken the time to graph it they would have known.
I was hoping the pics I was seeing were playing tricks on me about the location but nope! It's right in damn near the same spot we were launching the last time the water got this low and that is just not a good location if you have a couple dozers, at your disposal, and can put it where ever you want! I would have thought the park service with all there access to boats, and I would imagine depth finders, would have scoped the area and put it in the best spot possible for longer term use. Nope, nope, nope!!
The obvious spot is directly on the oppisite side of the Bullfrog main ramp where there is a nice grade for a longer term ramp and accessibilty.
Well, low and behold, the powers in charge of making all of the good decisions at Powell (and probably lots of other places they've actually never seen) must have figured that out cause when I was there yesterday, looking at it with my own eyes, the dozers were busy moving dirt to get after spending another two months building a ramp where it should have gone in the first place!!!!! (I hope, it feels like I need to go down and check on them every couple days just to make sure)
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