Kings, N. Fork

Dinkey Creek to Main Kings Confluence

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February 19, 2010

Trip Report

ReporterPaul Martzen
Gauge Reading670 cfs at NF KINGS RIVER BLW DINKEY CREEK

Three of us paddled from Balch Camp on the NF Kings down to Kirch Flat on the main Kings. It was a beautiful warm February day. The flow was from Balch Afterbay, due to the annual winter maintenance on the Kings River Powerhouse. Flow was around 670 cfs, which is a pretty nice flow, mostly clean, pushy but not really big yet. We did portage Chuck's Leap and Dewell's Demise. Eric swam out of the bottom ledge of 3 Ledges when his playboat did not punch through the center and it sucked him back in. Jeff went in the same spot but his bulbous SuperHero punched right through.

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