Blasting at Silverback

Well, Silverback has started to change again. After diverting the Ugly Sisters channel in August 2007 (date?), Silverback has become a bigger, surging rapid. However, the dam company has now started to blast on river left at Silverback. It used to be a nice, lush jungle but now it is full of huge, loose boulders that were pushed into the river. The channel has become a bit narrower and the standard line has changed. My first time down after the blasting, I cut hard right and still got pushed into the eddy on the top left. Rumors have it that Silverback will be closed off by the end of this month, but I am hesitant to believe it. We will see what happens.