Gunnison

I wrote this + 15 years ago. Over time, others have added a couple pictures and added to the description. There was some pushback that I sandbagged the description, so I revised it to provide more scarry language. There is stuff in there like 'how will your buddies get your broken body out of there?'. Dead ends with sieves. Excruciating portaging. Killer poison ivy. Every 5 or so years I check back in, to refresh my memory, before I run it again. Now I see another comment that I sandbagged it. I guess I still sandbagged it.

SOOO... the previous comments are 100 percent accurate. This is V+++, Notthing less. No IV's none. No human has any right to be in there. The drops you can run are junk. If you survive those, its just a portage fest. The Golden Whitewater Park is a much better place to spend your time; then you can have brunch after. If you are done with life, the Back Canyon is a spectacular way to end it. Do not go in there unless you have a death wish. The scenery also sucks. It’s just a bunch of black rock. Spiders, spiders, and more spiders (call out to the authors of CCR2).

I relinquish control. The previous commenter can feel free to give his own gory details. You are right, I did spend a lot of time on this.... many years ago...It’s all yours, Nate. You can use what content you want, except the pictures. Go take your own, if you survive. I have my notes saved for myself. Next Generation.... I hereby pass the torch....

I hope somebody took some value from my description. It was a pleasure contributing to AW,

Matthew Hopkins