Kadunce

Quick Facts:

Location: 'NorthShore' Minnesota, ~9 miles ENE from Grand Marais, ~9 miles WSW from Hovland.

Character: Bobsled-boating in a slot-canyon.

Shuttle Length: 0.6 - 0.8 mile (+/-) hike, but you'll likely walk much more than that (to scout and check flows and passage without boat, then back to your vehicle to gear-up and carry up, if flows look good to you and if there's not wood precluding a run).

Put-in elevation is 805' (first bridge), 820 (second bridge), 860 (third bridge).

Take-out elevation is ~602' (Lake Superior mean surface elevation).

Drainage area: ~10.7 square miles

Information (lat, lng, elev, total drop, run length, shuttle length) adjusted and/or verified from best manual extrapolation of online data (via google.com/maps distance measuring tool, acme planimeter, USGS StreamStats, and other resources). IMPORTANT NOTE: Other sources may show differing values. All values should be merely for general comparative purposes. Relatively minor differences (even up to 10-15% discrepancies) should mean very little in the grand scheme of all things whitewater! Far more important (than length, gradient, class/rating, etc) should be other less quantifiable 'character' factors (such as continuous or pool/drop, wide-open routes versus constricted technical rapids, gradual riverbanks versus rocky or vertical-walled gorges, etc).

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The put-in is reached by hiking (carrying your boat) up a trail to a bridge just above the slot canyon. While you might want to scout the river on the way up, much of it is in such a twisty back-cut slot-canyon that (in many places) you can't see the river from the lip! The river is potentially runnable from a big falls 1/2 mile further upstream if some 'logging' were done.

The 'moves' on this tiny creek primarily involve staying upright and avoiding high speed impact (and possibly injuries to body and damage to boat). At least a few drops

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