{"id":3781,"date":"2016-12-17T19:04:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T02:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2021-07-09T14:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T21:52:29","slug":"mike-nick-and-co-whitewater-kayaking-deer-creek-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/videos\/mike-nick-and-co-whitewater-kayaking-deer-creek-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike, Nick and Co. Kayaking Deer Creek, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mike says Deer Creek is the most underrated whitewater kayaking run in Washington, and it’s only an hour from Seattle.<\/strong><\/p>\n Back in October he showed Nick Baughman, Anne Bilton, Kieran Thurlow and Allen Yip down it, here’s Nick’s video. The cover frame of Mike boofing a ledge is one of my favorite shots – classic Pacific Northwest whitewater and setting. Note the beautiful throwbag toss at just after 2:40, you can’t see the bag but Mike is throwing from river left and it lands spot on.<\/p>\n Deer Creek is a good option if Robe Canyon is too high,<\/strong> depending on what the levels are doing. Mike likes to catch it when it’s dropping, not when it’s rising, and a little bit of flow goes a long way on this stretch. Apparently it has a somewhat flooded feel even at medium-low levels.<\/p>\n At low levels he calls it 6 miles of IV+ read-and-run whitewater with a few Class V rapids that are probably too low to run, at medium flows the character turns V-minus with marginally runnable V’s, and at high flows it’s continuous V with the harder rapids V+. Basically, a swim could mean losing a boat, especially at more substantial flows.<\/p>\n