Elk River...

Seeing that class was canceled on this chilly December day with good water Edgar, Kevin, Clay, Matt and I were looking for something to boat, we heard that the Twisting Falls section of the elk was holding and we decided to give it a try. We arrived to find the flow on the low side but still runnable (to low for the big falls). We encountered some fun rapids in the gorge, mostly slides with a few small vertical drops with the exception of highlight drops of the run compression falls and the drop just above it, we also learned that the twisting falls portage sucks pretty bad...all in all it was a good day (I am currently boatless other than my longboat so I forced to take the ole' piroutte S but it made the run interesting) here are a few shots from the day...

Edgar on the first rapid

Clay on one of the many mediumish sized slides of the day

Me longboatn' on a random slide (photo by: Clay Lucas)

Yet another slide

Slide to boof

The lovely and invigorating Twisting Fall portage

After several miles of solid class 4 and crappy portage we arrived at the highlight of the run compression falls...

Huck and Tuck (photo by: Edgar)

Kevin Firing it up (photo by: Edgar)

Clay with a nice tuck into the curtain (photo by: Edgar)

Matt giving it with a soon to be perfect plug (photo by: Edgar)

Kevin and I taking it in (photo by: Edgar

Clay finishing the run off with a sweet boof

Overall great day on the river everyone had good lines, cool run but kinda a long shuttle. Thanks for the great photos of the Falls Edgar...

Peace and good lines,

Mac

Team Pyranha