GRIZZLY CREEK Lower

Put-in	By foot, one mile up
Takeout	Colorado River confluence
Length	1 mile
Difficulty	all flows V (P)

Special Beta: Colorado big water with roadside access!

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I used to hike up Grizzly and ponder the subtle kayak moves that his little creek would require. The continuous corners and small boofs and drops. Now I know better. I include this run only because people are still curious about it after it inclusion in the second edition of Dave Eckhardt and Gordon Banks’ Colorado Rivers and Creeks. In recent years, be it a surge in recent deadfall or loss in motivation by the local paddling community to keep it clean, this creek has become clogged to the point of worthlessness. The amount of work it would take to bring this creek to a viable standard is immense. Even less encouraging is the knowledge that it even if you put the work in, the creek will almost certainly clog once again.

As it stands now, I give it a full class V rating for the wood and consequences factor. In reality, most of it is continuous class IV but heinous strainers and other hazards seem to warrant the higher grade. When this thing really gets going it is full-on V+ with disastrous consequences.