#4 Gilman Gorge

Andrew and Brent running Falls Creek Rapid

After our first lap on Homestake we went and ran Gilman. It was pumping in at around 750cfs which is pretty big. The water was definitely moving and is was super fun boogie water with big wave trains and some fun drops in between. Falls Creek rapid came up soon and Jace and myself got out and scouted it. There were some big holes on the way down to a boof over a hole while driving right just off of a large rock and over a log. Everyone did fine, while my line was interesting. I thought that I was going to ride over the log and boof but as I came up to the log I must have been a little to far left and I board slided the log away from the direction I was heading. I twas kinda weird that I did that because all of my momentum and the flow was heading right, but I went left. Go figure.

Brent running Slurry Pipe. You can just make out Andrew stuck in the sleeper hole. Sorry for the white out.

After some more boogie we got to Slurry Pipe. It looked big and Jace and I contemplated walking, especially after we saw Andrew get throttled in the sleeper hole at the end. Jace went first and had a clean line. I followed and was not able to cut back left after passing under the bridge so I dropped into the curler instead of boofing towards it. It is deep in there and for an instant I was just in a white room. I then got spat out and ran the rest of the rapid on the right and it was actually pretty easy going. I couldn't tell if I just missed the final hole or paddled through it.

All in all it was a great day and we went back for three more laps on Homestake afterwards.