Horsepasture

Horsepasture Beta: (from Boatertalk)

Date: Sep 16 2003, 20:01 GMT

From: boat_breaker

This is an absolutely beautiful run but a long day. As one of the other guys mentioned, you park in the designated state parking lot and then take the trail down to the river. You can put in right above turtle back falls and run down to Rainbow Falls...portage around the falls and put in at the base. This is where the fun starts. There are some great drops with incredible scenery. Its mostly drop pool and very doable, but its class V stuff. Then you get to Windy Falls where the river drops about 1000 feet or so. Here you have two options: (1) hike out and back to the parking lot (about a 2 hour hike...uphill!!) or (2) portage the falls and put in below (about a 45 min. difficult portage). If you elect to portage Windy then you basically end up in the lake and you will need to arrange a ride across the lake or paddle for hours to get to the other side where you left the car. There's a guy that will pick you up and get you across the lake for about $10-$20 per person (depends on how many boaters you have).

This is a great run, but it should be respected. Its doable by competent class V boaters but its sensitive because its in or near the Park and there have been recent deaths (non-boaters) on the river so we need to be very careful in order to protect the access.