Clear Creek

We (Christy Johnson, Owen Simcoe, and I) paddled Clear Creek/Obed from Jett to Nemo yesterday, and was it ever cold! No more than 45 degrees in the broad sunshine, and more like 40 most of the time in the shade. A comment about Jack's Rock Falls: don't run the left side of the rapid! It looks boat-scoutable, but what looks like a cute little slide from the top is actually a hole that munched Owen and me before we figured out that you really don't want to run that line. From the top left eddy, you want to ferry across to river right, above the rock that protrudes from the top of the drop, in order to get lined up for the cute little slide. I don't mean to imply that the rapid is super tough, or that the move is hard at all; it's just more fun to know the right (right) line, so I hope some future rookie on Clear Creek will read this and avoid the left (wrong) line. We found Wooten's Folly to be anticlimactic after the adventure at Jack's; it just seemed like a fun class 3 drop, not the scary monster we were preparing ourselves for, because you can see the line more easily than you can at Jack's. Overall, a very fun run; too bad you can't eliminate some of the flatwater after the Obed confluence. There was one big wavetrain, though, that reminded us of Double Trouble on the Ocoee -- nice big rollercoaster waves with absolutely nothing else to worry about. I can't wait to run this stretch again when it's warmer!