Big Brush Creek

Just off Big Brush at 2' on the take-out gage (nice wooden gage - look from river left upstream side of bridge - great high level for this run! Fun fast class 2-3 lead in to a few ledges (one tree portage easy to see but water level) then it starts building to 3 then 4 and on to slides up to 4+ and then you hit the old XXX rapid - the xx's are gone but the undercut on right is still hard to notice from above and the line looks like an easy drive left and boof - but we ran far left booting left instead which was fun, a bit tight but smooth. From here it was game on class 4-5 with some nasty rocks but many fun drops. We portaged a small part of one and then one long twisty rapid that I'm not sure where we ever ran in the past.. today it was rowdy with a junky rapid into a huge undercut boulder with little pool between them just below. Likely some line in the middle might go but logs and the risk of the undercuts on the left just not worth it. More boat-scout and revolving scout to 2 more hard drops we snuck / walked parts of and then 2 tight boofs into cracks on river right marked the end of the burl but the action continued past numerous gravel road crossings and little camps / houses before fading back to class 3 then 2 and then the old bridge piling in the middle signals the bridge and takeout are just around the bend. Great long day of boating, a step down from Henderson.. less ''classic'' than Cane/Chick but faster steeper and harder to boat-scout down. Reminds me of Bee Creek or Jones in spots - a bit more volume on the grainy sandstone of the plateau. Took us 3.5 hours most of which was in the steeper section 2/3rds of the way down. Would likely be runnable at 1' and much easier to scout your lines.
Clay