River Lover

The Klamath River has recieved a lot of attention lately. The attention hasn’t been due to boating or rapids, but complex water right issues surrounding three dams on the Klamath River and the salmon spawn. With it’s 30 year license being up no one knows what will happen to flows on the Klamath. Meanwhile we enjoyed flows made by power production on the Upper Klamath, a fun big water midsummer run often overlooked by kayakers due to sharp shallow rocks. Still a great run if you don’t roll!

If you put in at the standard kayakers put-in, the Frain Ranch, you get no warm up for this one.

I didn’t get out to get any other pictures due to the read and run IV-IV+ nature of the run, but I was excited with how well my new Punk Rocker handled the big water. I feared it might be too small at 145lbs and another 10lbs of gear, but it handled perfectly in the pushy water.

Further down Caldera….