The Latest on Dangling Rope...

An observation I have noticed on my last several trips, including this weekend. Once you get above Padre Bay, it seems to be an extremely lopsided majority of Houseboats camped on beaches, vs beach campers. In Last Chance this weekend, it was probably 8 to 1 ratio. It's probably 10 to 1 in Rock Creek or higher. I'd venture to say, lack of Dangling Rope has alot to do with that.
The Beach Bag company is also contributing to more Houseboats further uplake as well. I witnessed zero abandoned bags hogging a beach this trip.
 
Lake Bum said:
An observation I have noticed on my last several trips, including this weekend. Once you get above Padre Bay, it seems to be an extremely lopsided majority of Houseboats camped on beaches, vs beach campers. In Last Chance this weekend, it was probably 8 to 1 ratio. It's probably 10 to 1 in Rock Creek or higher. I'd venture to say, lack of Dangling Rope has alot to do with that.
The Beach Bag company is also contributing to more Houseboats further uplake as well. I witnessed zero abandoned bags hogging a beach this trip.
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So maybe the toy tanks are becoming the new mid lake 'reserve'? Sounds rational!

Also very Good news about the bags.....

Your post prompted my girlfriend to say to me: 'see, you just may get back to the lake, they let old bags there'

I'm gonna miss her.....

:cool:
 
Rainbowbridge said:
So maybe the toy tanks are becoming the new mid lake 'reserve'? Sounds rational!

Also very Good news about the bags.....

Your post prompted my girlfriend to say to me: 'see, you just may get back to the lake, they let old bags there'

I'm gonna miss her.....

:cool:
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I would definitely say the giant Adonia's and Bravada's are the primary fuel stations for the Wakeboat runabouts. I've never been aboard one of those new Yacht style Houseboats, but I bet they have HUGE fuel tanks. Can anyone here share what a Adonia or Bravada have for fuel?
I don't recall seeing any of those at Dangling Rope ever......but I gotta say, I was more focused on Ice Cream than anything else! It was rare I ever got fuel there, with the exception of my annual Escalante trip, or the fall San Juan trips. After I upgraded all of my ice chests to Canyon Coolers, I didn't even buy ice at Dangling Rope :cool:
 
Lake Bum said:
I would definitely say the giant Adonia's and Bravada's are the primary fuel stations for the Wakeboat runabouts. I've never been aboard one of those new Yacht style Houseboats, but I bet they have HUGE fuel tanks. Can anyone here share what a Adonia or Bravada have for fuel?
I don't recall seeing any of those at Dangling Rope ever......but I gotta say, I was more focused on Ice Cream than anything else! It was rare I ever got fuel there, with the exception of my annual Escalante trip, or the fall San Juan trips. After I upgraded all of my ice chests to Canyon Coolers, I didn't even buy ice at Dangling Rope :cool:
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I have a share in a smaller Adonia. It holds 700 gallons of diesel for the engines and generators and a 250 gallon toy tank. The big ones have a 1000 gallon diesel tank and a 500 gallon toy tank. That diesel tank allows mine to go almost anywhere on the lake without refueling and run a generator the entire time. I've been up to the Escalante on an 8 night trip and and didn't quite use half the diesel tank.
 
I guess if you think of it overall mid lake is a misnomer for Dangling Rope. However if you consider that there were 3 stops for fuel back in the day with Wahweap, Dangling Rope and Bullfrog kinda evenly spaced as waypoints of 1/3, 1/3,1/3. That's probably a bit more acurate. Was there fuel at Hite?
 
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Marina Bum said:
So 4 fueling points then, 1/4x4? About?? In that scenario then Dangling Rope would have been 1/4 up lake?
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Here's the mileage between marinas past and present, if you take the most efficient line:

Wahweap to Dangling Rope - 30 miles (38 if the Cut is closed)
Dangling Rope to Bullfrog - 58 miles
Bullfrog to Hite Marina - 50 miles

Some are going to say "but Dangling Rope is at mile marker 42, not 30". And that's true, but the markers tend to follow the old river channel. But with the wide bays south of DR, and the shortcuts you can take, including the Cut when it's open, you can do the Wahweap to DR run in as little as 30 miles when the lake is high enough... (also assumes the shortcut near Padre Butte is open, which is above 3610 or so)

The other distances are a little more fixed because there are no real shortcuts north of Padre Bay...
 
JFRCalifornia said:
Here's the mileage between marinas past and present, if you take the most efficient line:

Wahweap to Dangling Rope - 30 miles (38 if the Cut is closed)
Dangling Rope to Bullfrog - 58 miles
Bullfrog to Hite Marina - 50 miles

Some are going to say "but Dangling Rope is at mile marker 42, not 30". And that's true, but the markers tend to follow the old river channel. But with the wide bays south of DR, and the shortcuts you can take, including the Cut when it's open, you can do the Wahweap to DR run in as little as 30 miles when the lake is high enough... (also assumes the shortcut near Padre Butte is open, which is above 3610 or so)

The other distances are a little more fixed because there are no real shortcuts north of Padre Bay...
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So without the cut ~40 from Wahweap to DR? I guess down here in the Big City on the lake next to the drain plug I guess we just want to feel like masters of the universe, like DR is half way. It just takes to much time to go much further, therefore DR, half way. That's it, end of discussion. LOL
 
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JFRCalifornia said:
Here's the mileage between marinas past and present, if you take the most efficient line:

Wahweap to Dangling Rope - 30 miles (38 if the Cut is closed)
Dangling Rope to Bullfrog - 58 miles
Bullfrog to Hite Marina - 50 miles
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Given that Hite Marina is long gone, and likely not coming back anytime soon due to silt accumulation, it might be more logical to post the distance from Bullfrog to Blue Notch, to reflect how the lake now functionally operates in regard to launch sites (not that Blue Notch is that great a launch or recovery point, and of course there is no fuel there). In terms of fuel options, there is now nothing above Bullfrog, so from there to the mouth of White Canyon and back, if one wants to run the length of the lake as it currently stands, is basically a 90-mile round trip, roughly equivalent in distance to going from Wahweap to Bullfrog. No wonder there are not so many folks up at that end.
 
Colorado Expat said:
Given that Hite Marina is long gone, and likely not coming back anytime soon due to silt accumulation, it might be more logical to post the distance from Bullfrog to Blue Notch, to reflect how the lake now functionally operates in regard to launch sites (not that Blue Notch is that great a launch or recovery point, and of course there is no fuel there). In terms of fuel options, there is now nothing above Bullfrog, so from there to the mouth of White Canyon and back, if one wants to run the length of the lake as it currently stands, is basically a 90-mile round trip, roughly equivalent in distance to going from Wahweap to Bullfrog. No wonder there are not so many folks up at that end.
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We get up to Good Hope a lot, but I have never been further. We could probably make it since we fuel up on the houseboat somewhere near Tapestry wall, but nobody cares to go. The crowds are definitely thin once you get past Forgotten though.
 
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Colorado Expat said:
Given that Hite Marina is long gone, and likely not coming back anytime soon due to silt accumulation, it might be more logical to post the distance from Bullfrog to Blue Notch, to reflect how the lake now functionally operates in regard to launch sites (not that Blue Notch is that great a launch or recovery point, and of course there is no fuel there).
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Bullfrog to Blue Notch - 35 miles
 
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Meatwagon said:
I think a lot of this had to do with the economy.
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Thank God for 'Build Back Better'.....:)

So, take that 700+ gallons on a HB LP trip: say even $3.00 vs $7.00 = $3,000 more dollars.....who gets that moola?

And if you are in a 30% tax bracket? You had to earn almost $4,000 to cover that.

Plus the extra cost to get to our Lake?

But, you folks know this already....sigh

Ok, back to memes and puns....

Did you hear about the three conspiracy theorists that walked into a bar?

You can't tell me that was just a coincidence........

😋
 
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