I did the Guardrail section of Willow Creek! This is the second time that I have done this section of river. It is a harder section of river than what I usually do which is the Red Gate section. The first time I ran it was last fall with four other canoes and the water flow was in the low 600s cfs. This time it was 675 cfs and I could notice a difference! This time the water was pushier, there were lots of channels so more decisions to make. I didn't fall out of my boat the whole trip down, which is better than I did last fall. I did have a couple of close calls though.
I ran a section of one drop backwards. I got the boat spun around the correct direction as I went down the face of wave. I also had two awesome low braces that kept me in my boat and kept me from "countin fishes"!
This was another run where I left everything but what was absolutely necessary in the car, so no pictures!
I am working on running harder water to try and prepare me for a trip later this summer down to Oregon and Idaho. It will be my first time running rivers in the Pacific Northwest and I want to be able to at least come close to keeping up! We will see.
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