Red
KY 746 to KY 715 (10.3 miles)(Upper Red)
June 1, 2005
Trip Report
| Reporter | alan smith |
Ran the red on 4/29/05, post flood run again, red hit 3400 on Friday, ran it sunday at ~600 cfs (4ft). Some of the pictures here say the level is 6ft, but must be wrong because some of the boulders visible in the pictures are covered at 4ft. At this level the rapids are probably a solid class III, with a couple rapids borderline IV. The Falls of the red river have a pretty large hole on both sides, so the center is the best line on that. River left hole sucked me back under the falls and spit me out down river. There was a lot of wood in the rapids, one major bottleneck had a sneak on the river right side behind a large boulder, there was a river wide strainer in the flat water section toward the end.