Date: 2009-06-20 10:30am
Run: Dumont (6-pipes bridge) to Kermitt’s
Flow: ~700 cfs
Class: IV/III
Temperature: cloudy and cold (water temp was cold!)
Buddies: Chadwick, Fino
Description: Fino and I ran the Dumont section and met up with Chadwick at Chicago Creek for the Idaho Springs town run. Dumont is awesome at this flow. The upper section of Dumont is somewhat continuous class III with a few larger (but short) drops. The middle section consists of fish-ladder type drops, with fairly easy read-and-run decisions. The lower section contains some more continuous, narrow sections surrounded by road-blast rocks. Near the bottom there are some pretty significant, longer sections of rapids. Right before Outer Limits rapid, there is a long pushy rapid that was awesome at this flow. Outer Limits was fun, and not too difficult.
Carnage: I took a pretty silly swim after getting stuck in what should have been a nothing pour-over. I wen’t over the pour-over hoping to get some boof practice, but ended up getting stuck in a pretty steep hole at the bottom. I sat in it for a second bracing, but it was a bit too steep to really get in position to surf out, so I gave up a little too early and ended up swimming. I think I could have gotten out if I tried a little harder, not sure what happened there… Oh well, I guess you’re always between swims. Fino managed to broach my boat on a rock a little ways down, and I held onto my paddle, so it ended up being a pretty minor swim, aside from a few bumps and bruises.
