Silver
B) Upper Silver: Silver Rd to Arvon Rd (2.3 miles)
September 12, 2016
Trip Report
| Reporter | Dan Camp |
Ran this river yesterday @ 8.0 with a buddy and fellow whitewater rafting guide in our inflatable NRS Outlaws. We were incredibly impressed with this river and found ourselves out classed for the inflatable type boats we were using a few times. We ran the first two pitches of Hail Mary but decided to portage around the final pitch (thanks to the landowners for letting us use their property!). The sections between the bottom of Hail Mary and the top of the Cabin section were incredible and challenging. We spent plenty of time scouting the class four sections in the middle. Those rapids were intense, exciting, and very worthy of good names! Bubblebath does have a large tree down on the river right as you approach the falls, but it is easy to avoid by keeping towards the middle. By the time we reached the cabin section, we were just about out of daylight due to our late start so we chose not to push our luck and portaged using the road behind the cabin. Overall, an absolutely gorgeous portion of white water nestled into the U.P.!