Red Creek

Paddled this on 5/6/2018. Blackwater gauge at Davis was around 880 CFS when we put on, and rose to around 940 CFS by the time we took off.

Red Creek is continuous and somewhat shallow in places. It felt a lot like the Savage at normal release levels, but beefed up a bit and without all the nice people to cut the wood out for you beforehand. The largest set of drops I remember were about halfway down the run: the river curves to the right and drops over a set of shelves and ledge holes. After that, there's a short break as the river curves back to the left, followed by a straight shot for 100 yards of large offset holes. This section comes to a close when you punch a fairly sticky, almost river-wide hole.

There was a good amount of wood in the run, and though most was avoidable, I portaged one rapid because of it. It is important to be comfortable with boat scouting in continuous Class III on this run; it's almost guaranteed that there will be wood somewhere in it.

This is a run where you need a decent combat roll. It's shallow enough that you wouldn't want to spend a lot of time upside down, and swims will be long and cold. Eddies are very small and sparse, so getting an empty boat to shore is challenging.