Deckers Creek

Conservation organization: check out Friends of Deckers Creek.

For a helmet-cam video of this section, check out  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeczvJ6dLSo

Eric Henrickson 2004-05-21 17:29:02 This seems to be a rarely paddled section of Decker's Creek. Not that Decker's sees that much traffic anyway. It remains shrouded from view of passers by, but contains a remarkable series of drops, most of which are of the waterfall persuasion.

This section of Decker's is known to locals as 'Golden Showers', referring to the history of untreated sewer discharge from Masontown and Reedsville immediately upstream. The sewage situation seems to have mostly resolved thanks to legal action by the EPA and the construction of a waste treatment facility. Nevertheless, the water quality still leaves much to be desired

Basically there are five or so drops becoming more continuous as the run progresses. The run starts with a couple small slides into a small eddy above a narrow flume with a number of thoughtfully placed ledge outcroppings guaranteed to inflict pain and suffering should you choose to view them upside down. After a short pool, the flow devides into three channels. The middle is the route of choice leading to a wicked sweet ten foot boof. The right can be run as well, and leads to the about the only decent eddy in the remainder of the run. The next drop is another ten foot boof with a less clean approach and landing. This is immediately followed by a cascading drop which leads to a series of sliding ledges which end in yet another, but much more burly, ten foot boof. This drop has some serious hazards. At different levels, the approach changes and is hard to see as you paddle into it. The landing is a fairly narrow channel between two flat ledges. The right ledge is undercut as is the upstream ledge. The left falls into boulders and

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