Big Sucker Creek

Cty 33 to Lake Superior (6.5 miles)

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January 1, 1900

Trip Report

ReporterRob Smage

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).

Trip Report – Big Sucker Creek – Cty 33 to Lake Superior (6.5 miles) | American Whitewater