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On Friday night Chris(aka X-Factor), Kelly, Jason, and I camped at the mesquito infested takeout of the Encampment River.
On Saturday morning Kelly (who recently anounced she is prego... right on Chris!) graciously provided shuttle. We put on around 10:00 finished 4 hours later.
Encampment is a beautiful wilderness run that builds from class III to IV to -V in Damnation Alley then back to IV and then a relatively long II paddle out. Damnation Alley is big... much bigger than it looks from shore... Jason showed off his playboating skills. The class IV on this run is great. It is definitley worth the trip if you have not done the run.
On Sunday Chris, Jason, and I ran upper and lower Fish Creek. The put in is at the foot of Fish Creek Falls... a 100ft spectacular waterfall. There were about 50 tourists watching us put on... it was quite the scene.... "hey honey... I wanna stick around and watch these guys die."
The creek has about +/-500cfs in it and stomps from the moment you put on to the momnet you take off. There are very few eddys on this run and the ones that do exist hold 1 or 2 boats. Sometimes you have to hold onto the bushes/trees so you don't fall out of the eddys.
There is only one notable drop on the run which is not scoutable or portable. It is about 1/4 mile into the run... you run it on the right.... I entered right and exited left.... although right was better... left was fine too... just more pin potential.
There was one almost river wide log on the upper section that all but Jason walked around.
The Upper/Lower Fish Creek combination is a classic run... definitely get on it if you get the opportunity.
On Saturday morning Kelly (who recently anounced she is prego... right on Chris!) graciously provided shuttle. We put on around 10:00 finished 4 hours later.
Encampment is a beautiful wilderness run that builds from class III to IV to -V in Damnation Alley then back to IV and then a relatively long II paddle out. Damnation Alley is big... much bigger than it looks from shore... Jason showed off his playboating skills. The class IV on this run is great. It is definitley worth the trip if you have not done the run.
On Sunday Chris, Jason, and I ran upper and lower Fish Creek. The put in is at the foot of Fish Creek Falls... a 100ft spectacular waterfall. There were about 50 tourists watching us put on... it was quite the scene.... "hey honey... I wanna stick around and watch these guys die."
The creek has about +/-500cfs in it and stomps from the moment you put on to the momnet you take off. There are very few eddys on this run and the ones that do exist hold 1 or 2 boats. Sometimes you have to hold onto the bushes/trees so you don't fall out of the eddys.
There is only one notable drop on the run which is not scoutable or portable. It is about 1/4 mile into the run... you run it on the right.... I entered right and exited left.... although right was better... left was fine too... just more pin potential.
There was one almost river wide log on the upper section that all but Jason walked around.
The Upper/Lower Fish Creek combination is a classic run... definitely get on it if you get the opportunity.