Carberry Creek
Bridge to Applegate Reservoir
January 12, 2011
Trip Report
| Reporter | Nick Sinderson |
This run is a Rogue Valley favorite and when it's in local boaters will come a running. Dreamflows has an estimate for this run on the Northwest States page. The best gauge for this run is at...
http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/river/station/flowplot/flowplot.cgi?APLO3
This gauge gives the inflow, res. elevation and outflow for Applegate Res. What you're looking for is the inflow. The creek is often in runnable range when the gauge reads between 750 to 1,800cfs. Carberry Ck. flow will be most likely 1/3 or so of that.
The run starts with a couple hundred yard warm-up before the first class 4 and then takes off in class 3/4 boulder bar and bedrock rapid fashion from there for the next two miles before letting up in the last mile. The second drop is the longest and hardest and is worth a scout for wood. You can spot this rapid's location by the landslide on the road at mile post 3. To get a look, you can either bushwhack down or better yet eddy out right and look on your way down.
When this run is in the MF Applegate is always in and it makes a good warm-up for a Carberry run.