Mulberry Creek

This is a diagram of Mulberry Falls with my best estimates on the Rapid Categories - they obviously fluctuate with the water level. Always scout thoroughly because this creek's strainers move from week to week, as the creek can go from a trickle to flood stage in hours. I also placed good parking/put-in locations, useful trails, good scouting locations, and key hazards on there... What's worked best for us is running the river right side, then hiking up the wide trail to do the river left side (beware of Girl Scouts), and then obviously finishing with the Gauntlet... Naming: We call the big falls 'Whitener Huck Falls' because Joe Whitener has pretty much conquered them - successfully run nearly every route when the creek was at a trickle, at flood stage, and everything in between, numerous times. It doesn't involve much kayaking skill, just a ballsy 'huck.' We call the final stretch of Rapids 'Flanagan's Gauntlet' because on 11 Jun 05 when the creek was in total flood stage, I took a nasty swim there & came closer to drowning than I ever care to come. I went over on the very first rapid, failed 3 roll attempts, then swam the entire gauntlet, spending 90% of the time underwater (despite PFD). I also got a giant bruise on my butt that made it hurt to sit down for a week. This incident kind of got in my head so running this stretch always gets my heart racing... Anyhow, I hope this information is useful to future paddling explorers of this awesome creek. This creek will get your adrenaline flowing & let you know you're alive!