Sorry to continue the thread hijack. Ran Boulder Garden (top of Foxton) & Waterton Thursday night.
BG/Foxton is a fun/high side of normal level. Boulder Garden seemed about 700 (compared to my past runs) but there was more water coming in along the way as the Foxton run progresses. As always, watch the seive on the right side below the massive boulder at the bottom of Boulder Garden- run that left chute!
Waterton was at 2100. Definitely the most fun I've ever had in 10 minutes in a kayak. If you're comfortable with the bigness/fastness of it, I've never had that much fun on the front range.
Once you go around a few bends and see S turn up ahead, pull out left ASAP and scout the whole thing.
From S turns on is non-stop, fast big water (mostly just big wave trains with a few big wave holes to surf or dodge) and some serious Class IV lines in Green Bridge and Avalanche and basically no eddies on the left side once the action starts.
Green Bridge rocks are all under water-- run the sneak along the right bank or pick a class V boof somewhere else -- looked munchy everywhere but hard right. The next one (Avalanche) the big rock had water pouring over it but there was a clean line on the left, stay left of the left-side boulder above the rapid and keep left. Vertical Blender had an easy washed out wave down the middle and was washed out boogie water beyond that. The "lake", although flatwater, is moving very quickly and the take out is slightly challenging with no eddy - hold each others' boats while you step out.
High likelihood that if you swim, you may swim until the "lake" and your boat may carry on to who knows where. Better be comfortable rolling in big water. (Both Justin and I had combat rolls in some big boogie water).
If you have big water cravings & experience, go get some Waterton. So much fun. Enough stoke to carry my creeker back to the car. Would have ran it twice if it wasn't for being after 8 pm by then.
