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Hey,

I put some pics online of Vancouver Islands Moriarty Creek that my friend Shayne Vollmers took.
It is a fairly new gem and tons of steep fun. It is steeeeep, has lots of boulder gardens and some neat bedrock drops. Plus, it's one of the few creeks thats not in a canyon, it just screams down the side of Mt. Arrowsmith.

Check em out at:

Open-Sucks

click on the "BC WW" button in the navigation panel on the left.

Cheers, Jan

hey Jan

i saw the pictures of you guys paddlin c1 and all. Too fun. I am Van and looking for c1 or open boaters to paddle with. there are not too many of us around.
I paddle 3+

Give me an email if you guys are going to the sh\kook or something. You can always crash at my pad if we paddle in town.

nam
namngoc@hotmail.com

Jan,

That's one pretty creek, and some nice pitcher takin'.

These outfitting pages, and the C-1 outfitting tips, are really good. http://www.open-canoe.de/open-sucks/

They oughta be linked to the outfitting section of this site.

Well, there I was browsing through the magazines today when I spied an article in the fledgling Canoe magazine by none other than our own Jan Dettmer. Great article, Jan, sounds like a fun trip! Next issue maybe we can read about the first descent of Mamaquam Falls in a c-1?
Alden

What magazine? What article? etc. etc...

Alden,

Just today a kayaker friend mentioned that a friend of his ran Mamquam falls in a C-1 (but bailed, because 60' is too much to land on your knees with it being harder to control your boat angle, high centre of gravity, blah, blah..). Didn't mean much to me because I'm just a class II-III open-boater and don't do falls, nor do I follow kayaking or know anything about Mamquam falls. But apparently it's been done - given some of the video this guy showed me of Skookumchuk, Zambezei (some insane raft surfing) and a bunch a narly drops and big falls around BC and Colorado, I have no reason to doubt it.

Pat.

Hey,

Nam, you should come and paddle on the island with us. If you like class 3+, the upper Gordon would be your cup of tee (maybe a little harder). If you want to take it a notch up there is a whole bunch of runs.
Write me an e-mail if you want to come over.

I have not paddled on the mainland that much but wanted to paddle some of the creeks in the Chilliwack area sometime in the future (upper Slesse, Tamihi)

Alden, glad you liked the article. It is in Canoe Journal, a yearly issue of C&K magazine...

So, since the Falls have been done, I have to run
50/50 on the commitment canyon (Ashlu) then. Maybe not...
Hey but if you want to run a big one, we explored a new river last weekend and had to hike out cause there was a 50+ footer we could not walk. You should probe it! Would be a fd as weell, not only for C1. It looks runnable and some kayakers were
keen but we ran out of daylight...

Pat, was that footage of a guy called Tyler surfing a raft for like 3 minutes in a big butt hole after everyonme else was washed out? my roommate was in that raft too and I paddled with Tyler up island last weekend. Pretty neat footage.

Cheers, Jan

Jan, don't know anybody never mind who was in what raft. Big water in Africa, and lots of rafts, lots of carnage, and some sweet surfing, that's all I know. As a tame open-boater, it didn't look like anything I'd ever want any part of!

Apparently there is video of the C-1 descent of Mamqaum Falls, but I couldn't find it. The guys name was Alan Brausman (or something like that?).

P.

yeah, i was just kidding. ive seen the video. it's allen braswell. sounds like an interesting waterfall you found Jan. 50 footer that hasn't been run? Must be pretty small flow or pretty sketchy???
Alden

Dude,

this is Canada, not the US...lots of exploration left.

It actually looked perfectly clean. Big pool below.
Had a little ramp and a little bit of a drop in the approach nothing crazy though.
We could not really check out the pool though cause
it was in a vertical canyon and there was not much
daylight left and eigth (that is eight) boats wanted to be roped out of the canyon.
I don't run high water falls but whoever is into that
would have fun on that one. I'm sure someone will run it next time we paddle there.

Volume: It is a creek but not super small. We went into the canyon at really low flows though. It might get sketchy at higher levels.

Cheers, Jan