Dinkey Creek

First big drop above Infinislide
Last big drop near the end of the slide

We ran it on 5/15/07 at 290/250 daily swing on NF kings guage. It was a great level for the infinislide and the first couple rapids...but very low for the rest of the run. I would like to go back in with more water.

Dinkey Dome and Dinkey Creek, SuperDink! section, with a view of the lower section of the Infinislide.
The red arrow points to where the rock quarry (the red dot) is for parking. Cow Creek enters from the north into Dinkey Creek. To get to the Super Dinkey section, cross Cow Creek, then hike along the north side of Dinkey Creek, cutting across the granite is easiliest. the run starts about where the 'E' is in Dinkey Dome. Southwest of the dome on the map.

Dan on the last few drops of the Super Dink section.
Dan going over the last big drop that ends the Super Dink section.
The big drop from the pool below. About 20ish feet high. Clean left of center to the right. Some run left side and slide/bounce on the rock shelf.

Second to last drop before the unrunnable gorge at the base of Dinkey Dome, prior to the Super Dink section.
Evan hiking toward our portage over the river right. You can see where the unrunnable gorge starts, at the background of the picture, the steep granite on the right indicates the start of the gorge. The first drop into the gorge section looked Class VI, very nasty. We portaged up and over on river right to the beginning of Super Dink.
overview near the beginning
overview of Super Dink

the starting point of Super Dink
Paul checking out the beginning of Super Dink.

The levels listed above are NOT good to go. Seeing that we would have a 'perfect' level of 500-550, we hiked in last week and got skunked by HIGH water. We left our boats and walked back in 2 days later when the level was in the low 400s, and it was probably on the high side of good for a really strong group with lots of safety set. Since then I have talked to close to 10 different people who have hiked in and been skunked by high water, and the consensus seems to be that 250-350 is the range you are looking for on the North Fork Gauge.

Leland

another overview

The pool in the foreground is the highest put in that I have seen used to start the Infinislide. People have paddled higher up but portage around a gorge to this point.

The small exit drop always seems to give big wheelies!
This could be considered the uppermost part of the Infinislide, though there is a short calm pool at the base of this slide,

The 'Infinislide' is a continuous slide
of at least 1/4 mile length.

These waterfalls are two of many at the base of Dinkey Dome. After one more falls that is out of the picture, Gabe was helped out of the creek above an unrunnable crevice.

This run was Memorial weekend in 2002.

Looking across the canyon at Dinkey Dome from a spur road. From the end of the road, hike downhill but gradually upstream to the creek. The hike from this road is only about .3 miles to the creek, but with almost 500 feet of drop over awkward terrain.

This waterfall signals the end of the infinislide section. Below this point rapids are tighter, more congested, and somewhat less steep.

the rock quarry parking lot

Almost to the Infinislide.
Evan paddles for the lip of a big falls at the start of the Infinislide on SuperDink!.

This is supposed to be a pic of a gauging rock instead of a duplicate waterfall pic. Oh well. It will get updated properly at some point.

This is the downstream river right side abutment of the highway bridge. The flow shown in this picture is low for the Cherry Bomb Falls section, but medium to medium high for the SuperDink! section. The NKD gauge was showing between 350 and 250 cfs flow.
This painted gauge is on the river right bridge support on the main road below the Dinkey Creek Campgrounds. The lines are about 3 inches apart. The water level shown is 34 inches below the ledge and was still excellent for the Infinislide but probably too low for the rest of the creek. The NF Kings below Dinkey Gauge read between 210 & 250 cfs the following day, but this relationship changes by season and probably by water year type.