| Class: | 3+ | ||
| Flow: | 20cms | ||
| Length: | 5km | ||
| Time: | 2-3hrs | ||
| Portages: | wood and waterfall | ||
| Season: | Spring or Heavy Rain | ||
| Put-In: | Highway bridge | ||
| Take-Out: | Put in for lower canyon |
Run description:
This is a super fun boulder garden run that has very easy access. As soon as you drive on the Heber River after Crest Creek Crags turn up the logging road and drive to the pipeline and park your shuttle car there drive up the road unitl you hit a bridge crossing the river. Put in here, you have some easy class 3 and a fun small slot section before things start to steepen up. Once you hit the steep section the first 100m is all runnable on river left boat scouting with some nice tight lines and a few ledge drops. After this is a fun section the forms a S shape in the river. Take a look and hit the eddy on river right to take a look at the next 50m. This is the hardest stretch on the river and pure over into a sticky! hole then hitting your line through tight lines done the river right shore to stick the boof off the right of a 10foot waterfall. Then 1 more stretch of fun class 4, then get out on the left and portage the slot that has a terminal hole at the bottom. Seal launch or lower into the river after the slot and paddle to the pipeline. There is a short stretch of fun class 3 between the pipeline and the highway bridge.
Other runs on the Heber River: