Boulder Creek, South

in the boogie water before the forebay, dodging holes

looking down on the lead in to Martin Gulch Falls - when we cut wood, it moves ... and here it has found us again
left side very undercut
Martin Gulch Falls from the inside

pretty sweet
typical lower south boulder creek nature
Mank City, Colorado
The whole deal is a sucking undercut sieve
- wood in this drop has moved in from prior upstream cutting
this tree was rooted here, but has toppled in now and has been chainsawed at the end, beware this hidden danger when levels are >450cfs
wood here, wood there
downstream has more
its been cut, so its moving
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Moist Slot rapid has a hidden (at >250 cfs) sieve on river right about 15 feet after the initial slot drop. The right side of the the entire drop and the ensuing hole are undercut, too. Be aware that accidents have occurred here when considering this drop.

Good boat angle and on line.

Beautiful rapid - got throttled and rolled in the hole in bottom right after this shot.
350cfs range - rapid has changed since this picture was taken, rivers always changing, love it.
The old shelf boof
June 1998 flows were decent.
This upstream view shows the nature of the rapid before the rock shifted and completely changed this rapid. Hold on! This ain't over yet big daddy
Hang in there man! After the rodeo it STILL ain't over...
Watchout for the bottom hole!

This is the correct line to take. Normally this drop isn't scouted and we make the 1st timers run it blind, it's a super easy drop. But if the level is more than 250cfs going over the dam the hydraulic gets some teeth and could stop you. At higher levels there have been some awfull train wrecks with boaters stuck at the bottom and others ramming into them.
This is the first hard rapid(V-), just after the foot bridge. Mike immediately back-endered a nanosecond after this was shot. The eddy on river left is powerfull and feeds back into the hole.

We had talked to the outfitter in Boulder and I had seen it on video so no scouting just run it!The creek above was great fun!

chilly day, first time slide