Prospect Creek and an out of town booty beer!

Saturday afternoon we loaded up a truck with creek boats and took off for Thompson Falls and Prospect Creek.

Patrick, Darren and I took the two hour drive from Missoula to Thompson Falls to check out this not-so-often run gem of a creek without a whole lot of information. All we knew was that it had a pretty fun class IV upper gorge, beautiful blue water and quite possibly a whole lot of wood.


We put in and paddled a couple of fun class III rapids when we came to the hardest part of the gorge, a stacked set of powerful looking class IV rapids stacked right on top of each other. No one had the cahones to fire it up so we opted for a quarter mile portage around the meat of the first gorge, vowing to come back and get a piece of the more difficult rapids on another day. After our portage we paddled several fun class III and IV rapids, making our way finally down to the final gorge. The final gorge consisted of a fun little rapid with some tight moves and high walls followed by the last rapid of the stretch that emptied into the Clark Fork River.

Patrick fires up the first drop on the final gorge.

The final rapid on the last gorge had a great seem where the water meets up and plunges towards the final hydraulic. Hitting it just right sends you deep, deep, deep into the bottom of the river for a super fun ride.

Darren melts into the final hole

Once in the final hole you can get some pretty crazy enders after spending a little time in the depths of Prospect creek.

I get some stern squirtage in the final rapid of Prospect Creek.

Patrick with some more of the same

Last weekend we had a little visit from a good friend Shevy Schmuas. Schmaus has been living in Seattle for a while and dropped back into town for a couple beers and some time with her family. She took a trip down to Brennan's Wave Saturday afternoon and after a bummer of a paddle drop she took a swim in the Clark Fork River. She paid the price like a champ however and took a booty beer out of my booty no less!

Like a champion