British Columbia White Water

Max Fisher is having a good time up in Strathcona these days and got out on a bunch of new runs on the Conuma and Heber Rivers. He updated the Vancouver Island section of rivers:

Conuma River
Heber River

Cheers, Jan

We paddled the Gordon (Upper/Lower) on Saturday in low water. Upper. The insidious log at the first drop on triple drop, is gone (hooray). Terminator has changed; there is now a right line on the hole (left of the sneak) and a tongue that protrudes past the meat of the hole. Middle. Minefield is looking less mine-y (less rocks protruding everywhere) and there is a new hole at the bottom. The entrance to the second canyon (I don’t remember the name of the rapid) is now a whole other story. There is a killer sieve on river right and a bigger hole in the main channel. Scout this for sure. Double drop has a right, middle and left (usual) line. At low water, left was still advisable and the wood is gone.

I was cleaning house the other day and came across a few old tapes of some amateur video shot in the late 90’s of me and some paddling buddies back in ole Tennersee. So, I decided to convert a few to digital and upload to youtube.

That said, if you’re real bored and/or real drunk, enjoy…

Russell Fork, KY
Caney Fork, TN

The first drop of Triple Drop on the Upper Gordon has an extremely dangerous log in the left (normal) line. This one is especially insidious because it’s virtually impossible to see from river level (boat scouting) and the drop appears clean from the river-left setup eddy; but looking from either bank or from the ‘boof’ rocks in the middle you can see it. It’s right at gut level and is pretty much the perfect death trap. Should be OK at higher flows, but at medium and lower flows this one is real bad. The rest of the Upper and Middle are clean, with the exception of some branches hanging over the entrance to the river left (normal) line on double-drop.

The pictures of our trip down Clendinning Creek near Whistler are online now.
Go to “River Gallery”, then “BC Mainland”, then “Clendinning Creek”. Easy.
Enjoy, Jan