Big Sucker Creek

By the way . . . the sharp edged blasted rocks (mentioned in the final paragraph of the main description) can be hell on boats. It is not entirely uncommon for someone (out of a group of paddlers) to end up with a major gash and leak in their boat. (North Shore paddling can be hazardous to your pocketbook!)

In the middle of the run lies the steepest section of gradient, at 'Energizer Bunny'. This drop keeps going, and going, and going .... Dag and Dave demonstrate two routes down the meat of the drop.
While this wasn't too close a brush with immovable objects, you can quickly see why we generally opt for elbow guards when running North Shore creeks!
It is difficult to have a 'pretty' run of 'Five Steps', as Dag demonstrates here. (These are some of the 'fish ladders' that the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (HAH! Natural?) has dynamited into the bedrock of this river (all so fishermen have a couple more miles of fishable stream).

In the first drop (from the upper put-in) the river narrows, twists, pauses, then slides down a short ledge. Pinning/tripping/piton rocks abound.
Various boaters run 'Energizer Bunny'.