British Columbia White Water

Conor and I went to explore Granite Creek by Port Renfrew yesterday and despite the low water level it still was some good times and I was scared shitless a few times.
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This past weekend, a group of 5 paddlers drove up the east coast of Vancouver Island to explore a largely unknown watershed: The Memekay River. The Memekay River is situated on northern Vancouver Island, close to the town of Sayward. It flows into the Salmon River upstream of the Island Highway. Shayne Vollmers from the VIWPS raised awareness that micro hydro threatens this watershed with 2 applications for diversion dams on the main stem and on the Middle Memekay. (more…)

I got this from Murrough O’Brien today:

There is a pristine creek valley minutes past Sooke that is slated for helicopter logging by Timberwest and many people feel it is too fine an area to be lost. To date 2 of us in the Muir Creek Protection Society have measured 12 old growth giants that may qualify for entry in the Big Tree Registry of B.C., (more…)

With all that heavy rain in the last few weeks, the Victoria creeking crowd had been looking at some steep creeks close by that only run with a lot of rain. One day, Kevin, Conor and I hiked up Muir Creek and found a very steep canyon. That was remarkable because we had been driven over Muir all the time on our way to other rivers but had no idea that it had such a steep canyon just a couple hundred meters from the road. The day we scouted it first, the creek was flooding and looked….well, crazy. (more…)

So this is a short story about the easiest exploratory run ever. No, not the Tsangpo. Some pepole might think the Tsangpo was the easiest exploratory boating since Inuuit came up with the kayak thing. But they are wrong. (more…)