MOVIES: Chris paddling (140K), and Tom dropping (380K).
Earlier this year I bought a new kayak, the Wavesport Mutant. With the low water conditions throughout Colorado I was afraid the creeks wouldn't run, and I would get to use it! Last week, after paddling Pine Creek and Numbers, Chris Lau and I went to take a peek at what Clear Creek was doing. It was pretty low, but looked runnable. And so the next weekend we went for it :)
The run is about three miles long, during which the creek runs through three narrow gorges. It's fairly steep, between 150 and 200 feet/mile. The water was very low, we had to scrape and bump down the wider parts of the creek, but it was all worth it!
The gorges were very fun, with lots of small steep drops. For such a short run, even with all the scraping on the bottom between the gorges, it was still worth it -- and a lot of fun!
