I've been fortunate enough in the last 2 weeks to have had the chance to paddle with some great friends on 2 rivers that very few people in the paddling world seem to know about. The first being the Gilttoyees which flows into the Douglas Channel approx. an hour from Kitimat by jet boat (a little past Jesse Falls). This river has only been kayaked twice so far and has to stand out as one of the most stunning valleys in BC ... with grade 5 kayaking (drops about 1000 feet in 9 km - total trip is 23km).
The other is the Upper Clore river (also refered to some friends as the Grand Canyon of the Clore) ... an approx. 11 km stretch of continuous grade 4+/5 whitewater that doesn't let up. This has been paddled 3 times now (Corey Boux, Scott Feindel, Mark Basso among others) and I'm sure will be many times in the future (cheap fly-in).

Here's a few pics


Last rapid on Gilttoyees




Some of the bigger stuff - Gilttoyees




Natou Kurtz - Gilttoyees




We portaged ... but who knows - Gilttoyees




Ian Norn - Gilttoyees




Check out the scenery - Gilttoyees







Joe Kotai - Upper Clore




Natou Kurtz - Upper Clore




Joe Kotai - Upper Clore

i tell you what. you are one lucky bloke! that looks amazing! too bad i got no money and no one to paddle with.i would seriously think about doing that in the future.

Yeah i will 2nd that, looks good. I really would like to paddle in the states 1 day, like sparx says its just finding the people to go! Hey sparx im sure there's an offer in there sumwhere! lol.

I think if i had to chose somewhere it would be the skookumchuck wave cos it just looks incredible.But that looks the dogs danglies man, nice photos to.

matt

Great photos! Thanks for sharing.

But in the future, please post your photos to Playak's Blog section:
paddleblogs.com/

Would appreciate that...

Cheers,
Adrian

AdrianTregoning wrote:

Great photos! Thanks for sharing.
But in the future, please post your photos to Playak's Blog section:
paddleblogs.com/
Would appreciate that...

well, let's say: that would even be better... not to discourage anyone from posting photos in the forums