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Run description:
THIS SECTION IS RUNABLE! Fishermen often call it Monkey canyon. There is a put right above the canyon but its a long walk, its normally done after running the Upper Upper run. When coming down from the upper upper you will float down some open grade 2+ stuff until the river makes a hard left and enters a box canyon. The run starts with a fun box canyon this is the single longest rapid on the run and is rather continues. There are eddies on river left and 1 half way down on river right. More or less you go down the left side until there is a horizon line, go right then stay right and then after a short calmer part you want to go and catch the last eddy on river left, right above a rapid narrowing of the canyon. Bomb down the last drop and enjoy the amazing, canyon that it puts you in. Its flat water in this canyon so enjoy! That’s all I’m going to tell you. After the flat section (50-60m long) there are a few (I think 4) strait forward, grade 4 boulder drops. The first on you go left on and the others are boat scout able. After that there will be a good sized eddy on river left and down stream you will see a big canyon wall on the left and a large slab rock on the right eddy out on the right just above the slab rock! Catch that eddy! The drop has been cleanly run down the left of centerline. Most people walk down below the slab rock and slide in on the right. You want to run the boof into the pool on the left side of the rock. After this big drop there are 2 more boulder drops and your more or less done other than a big long grade 2+ float to the take out. This has only been run 3 or 4 times so there isn’t allot of info on it. The take out is right after the road going to the upper upper crosses the gold river and takes a sharp turn to the left. Walk the 2 seconds down to the river and check it out.
Flows because the gauge on the gold is about 20-25 km below the canyon its a little tricky to know but the highest that its been run on the online gage is 90CMS and that’s about as high as I think that it should be run so to be able to portage the big drop, and at higher flows that drops going to become nasty. And I’m sure that it can be run very low. 65CMS on the gauge would be a good level to check it out at.
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