Date: 2009-05-07 5:45pm
Run: Lower Clear Creek (Below Rigormortis down), Golden Play Park
Flow: 230 cfs
Class: IV, III
Temperature: maybe 70 deg (warm)
Buddies: Chadwick Shoults, Randy P, Nick, Alan (last 3 guys from coloradokayakers.com)
Description: Lower clear creek at 230 is a little pushier than 170, but still pretty bony. I definitely bounced off a lot of rocks on the way down; luckily it wasn’t my head bouncing off rocks though. I had a pretty clean run all the way down, although I felt like I could have done better. Started working on a back-stroke brace, which I think might come in handy at some point – a mastery of many types of braces is so key to staying upright. Overall, it was a nice day, I think everyone had fun, although Alan had a couple swims. Luckily no injuries or anything like that. We walked around the rusty metal death-trap dam and put in right below it. I took the left line around the boulder in the middle, and it was fine. Randy and Nick took the right line and it was fine too. The dam hole looked pretty nasty, but possibly doable if you had some speed.
Carnage: A few rolls at the bottom while not paying attention. Alan took the brunt of the carnage with two swims, but they weren’t too bad.
