| Norrish Creek — Lower Canyon to Bridge™ © |
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AccessGo on Hwy 7 through mission towards Dewdney. The Hwy will turn sharply to the right at a light and cross some rail road tracks by some stores and a restaurant. You don't want to turn here. Follow the road you get on by going through the light and turn right on "Hockins Pickle RD", seriously thats the name. It will cross the creek soon after. Thats the take out, also where the guage is on river left down stream side of the bridge. |
Putin DetailsFrom take out go back to where you turned onto Hockins Pickle Road and turn right instead of left(Back to Mission) follow that road around corner and onto the gravel road. Follow that up around the 6km marker and look for a pull out to the right. Park there and follow old road down to a trail on the right. Continue following trail, bearing to the right. You want to put in at the bottom of a really tight canyon above a nice 8 foot ledge. |
Takeout Detailsgoing through the lite and turn right on "Hockins Pickle RD" seriously thats the name. It will cross the creek soon after. Thats the take out, also where gauge is on river left down stream side of the bridge. |
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Fun Facts0.34 on takeout gauge is a good medium first time flow. |
Run Description [Season: ] Norrish Creek is one of the nearest BC creeks to Seattle, probably less than an hour from the border on good highways. While not as classic as many of its more well-known counterparts, this run contains many enjoyable rapids and flows through a scenic and committing canyon. While much of the whitewater could be characterized as class IV or “easy” V, there are two mandatory rapids in the gorge that will make even hardened BC creekers a bit apprehensive. Those rapids as well as the lack of an online gauge are probably the main reasons that this is not more of a destination run. It’s worth getting on, and you may be surprised by the relatively easy drive and access that this river entails.
Depending on where you end up on the hike down, you will find a gnarly-looking rapid in a pinch in the gorge. Right downstream of this, a tributary comes in directly across the river. This is where you should launch in. From here, at normal flows, much of the whitewater can be figured out from your boat or scouted without too much trouble.
At some point, you will reach a point where the gorge walls are high and the river plunges over a series of ledges. You can scout from the left; tributary waterfalls come in from the right. Basically, the rapid consists of two trashy holes with no option to set safety. Running the first one on the left gave me plenty of time to set up and get a solid boof on the second--sweet! It’s a stressful spot and is the main reason why this run definitely deserves a Class V rating. It would be a huge amount of time and work to portage this section.
Downstream is another semi-mandatory rapid. There is a log across the river (June 2011). You must enter on the left and then move to the right in order to duck the log. This would be a spot that would get more complicated at high water. Below this are more rapids and at least one other likely portage. Then the river opens up and you paddle a bit of gravel shoals to the takeout.
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