Stekoa Creek
1- Upper: Highway 23 to Rickman Airfield Road
January 1, 1900
Trip Report
| Reporter | Logan James |
This is the 2nd Major Rapid on upper Stekoa Creek. It is a slide that drops 15' or so verticle. The level was -12' on the gage painted on 441, and the Chattooga was at 1.6
This is the 2nd Major Rapid on upper Stekoa Creek. It is a slide that drops 15' or so verticle. The level was -12' on the gage painted on 441, and the Chattooga was at 1.6. We ran it later at -8' and the hole at bottom was starting to get sticky, one boat got stuck in it for 5 minutes.
This is the 3rd Major Rapid on upper Stekoa Creek. The level was -12' on the gage painted on 441, and the Chattooga was at 1.6. It is a double drop of about 40 feet total. The photo is of the top part of the drop. Land on bedrock.
This is the 3rd Major Rapid on upper Stekoa Creek. The level was -12' on the gage painted on 441, and the Chattooga was at 1.6. It is a double drop of about 40 feet total. The photo is of the bottom part of the drop. Landing seemed pretty shallow. We portaged, but with more water the bottom of the drop defently look like a go.
This is the 4th Major Rapid on upper Stekoa Creek. The level was -12' on the gage painted on 441, and the Chattooga was at 1.6. It is about 10 feet or so verticle drop that had a bad crack sieve on right side and left look a little nasty with the low water. Middle is clean but might be hard to hit with lots of water.
This is the 5th Major Rapid on upper Stekoa Creek. The level was -12' on the gage painted on 441, and the Chattooga was at 1.6.
This is the last big rapid on Upper Stekoa Creek gorge. The level was -12' on 441 bridge and Chattooga was at 1.6 very low.