Casper Kayakers

Brown Bags, CowPatty 25' creek bag

2011-12-21T17:08:00.000-08:00

Brown Bags CowPatty. 3300lb test Edelweiss Nylon rope. Water resistant treated. 25' for quick action in creeks or multi use rope. Be Safe Be Brown! 30% profits go straight to AW or First Decents. The bags will look like CowPatty's and include a couple more peices of bright 1" webbing. The bottom pic is first prototype top two pics are actual product.

october goods

2011-10-24T16:50:00.001-07:00

sweet hiking trip

another rad day down beartrap canyon

different aspect of the canyon

october has come and will be on its way shortly but not without blessing us with the last of its power from the spring. rad year to be a kayaker

The Schmitt

2011-09-24T00:35:00.001-07:00

Running the Schmitt is a term my friends and I use regularly. This film brings you to Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho covering multiple classic runs like; Big Timber, Boxelder, Deer Creek, NFLW, "The Box", N.F. Payette, Blackfoot, Lower Mesa Falls, M.F. Popo Agie, Fremont Canyon and a couple more priceless gems. Enjoy!

videos..

2011-09-18T21:53:00.000-07:00

I nearly forgot about this site. doing a fair amout of boating to say the least.

heres 9 vids from various awsome trips
Start off with the most recent trip which was this last weekend the 17th of September, Enjoy the rest of the season all. Click on "Vimeo" in the window of the Video to get HD version from Vimeo.

Wolverine Canyon of the Blackfoot

The Box, High Side of Good

North Fork of the Payette

The Pots

Quake Lake, Remix 69

Lower Mesa Falls and Lunch Counter Wave

North Fork of the Little Wind

Middle Fork of the Popo Agie

Gallatin Raft trip with my friends and Family

Busy couple of weeks

2011-08-24T23:21:00.000-07:00

Dillworth post treats..

Evan Stafford, David Kemper, Snug, Ted Keyes scouting with faith

I scored runs on lots of sweet classics recently, I took a trip down to the Winds in Wyoming and attempted to run NFLW which was juicy, as well as scored the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie. a week later my wife Britney and I took off to spend our Anniversary around Alpine Wyoming, I stomped mesa and had a great time throwing down at the infamous Lunch Counter, Britney and I enjoyed Granite creek together and than i hit the Greys shortly aftering packing up for the drive back to Bozeman. Week after that awsome trip, Woody got a group together for a high side of good Box mission. The Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River in that 22 mile section of whitewater known as the Box is the most awinspiring peice of earth this way of the mississippi. Ginormous cliffs that you kayak next to which def make the rapids feel smaller than they really are. simply amazing river with classic moves littered through it miles. Here's some Pics Enjoy

Jarod Alexander sweet inbetween nameless goodies

Nathan Golden stroke Double Duece

Snug and the rest of the crew Box camp

Notice the steller fleet of Liquid Logic boats, Remixes, Jefes, Grande, and a stomper

Neil Black ops Calander...

Crew baking in the Wyoming sun Lower Dillworth Box

Upper Hyalite Creek

2011-07-03T10:14:00.000-07:00

Upper Hyalite from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Upper Hyalite at a stomping level. This is a killer novelty run in sense that it is a miro creek located on a fault zone. The creek cascades down a couple sweet drops through a canopy of trees. Watch the take out there is a sketchy log down stream of last couple eddies, actually theres a lot of wood period.

in the first drop after the eddy i pulled big log out of spearing position

Macho Munchies

2011-06-29T08:22:00.000-07:00

Went back to Casper for the 8th annual rodeo, and surfed the munch.. I cant ever get enough of this awsome wave!

Macho Munchies from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Macho Munchies is the Schmitt in terms to how bad ass that piece of glass is! Here's Alex from Confluence; Brent, Ian, and Brooke with the Rendezvous group; and Luke Sutton, Jason Baker and Mike Perry the locals killing the Munchies with a main coarse of air. Platte River flow was 8k. Just like food you cant ever get enough of this wave! Enjoy and "Keep it classy San Diego"

"Best darn wave this way of the Mississippi" Cody OG

Big Timber

2011-06-20T12:06:00.000-07:00

Crazy Mountain Range

I meet up with some of my GYGK brethern for a sick day up Big Timber Creek. Scored some sick laps, flow was low and weather was typical of Montana.

Frazer stoked on Teagues underage Gambling

Beartrap Canyon of the Madison, Hyalite redone

2011-06-15T12:03:00.000-07:00

Beartrap Canyon is a great run located on the lower reaches of the Madison River. 10 miles or so of scenic awsomeness and a couple big water rapids thrown in for good measure. flow was 4820 cfs and can continue to rise in my book. fun level.

than i felt like redoing the hyalite vid with a typical day up hyalite with the sun shinning. so here it is. HD vid will be uploaded when i get some more available uploads

Big T getting ready to go and the Gally is boomin

2011-06-09T13:44:00.000-07:00

Big T season is about to be underway shortly

Going be a great season here on the Gallatin

Hyalite Creek solo

2011-05-26T14:52:00.000-07:00

We got hit by a sweet rainstorm on the 24th. rained all day long. It also happened to be Davids Birthday. Out of nowhere I received a call from my neighbor Jason who decided he wanted to take me up to Hyalite for a lap, if the gate was open. I grabbed my shit and had it in the truck after he got done with his shift, at Northern Lights. As we drove up everything worked out, plenty of water in the creek, open gate at the bottom of the canyon, and a clean enough creek to kayak. At the putin I found out I didnt pack my skirt... as we are driving back down to go back to my place on the Gouch, three turns down the road, a kayaker named John rolls up the road. We flip er around and have a quick chat, only took 20 secs before John decided he was going to lend me his Holy skirt.. We drive back to the put in and I seal launch in to the frozen creek at 6:30pm for a chilly but well deserved and needed lap down Hyalite Creek. I feel like Schmitt wanted me to go creeking!

lots of boating going on..

2011-05-26T14:42:00.000-07:00

going keep it short and sweet. lots of boating going on..
Lower Deer Creek was Killer again this year. heres a low side run

Hit up a section of Swan Creek, a tributary of the Gallatin, that my buddy Andy tipped me off to it last summer, Im calling it the Micro Mank from now on.. cant wait to see what high water looks like.

and heres a clip of the Laramie River after our Bluegrass skunk, some Big Sky boarding, some Fremont with my Sensi Pat Toft, a little four wheeling, and a run down the not so classic, south fork of the west fork of the Gallatin..

Passing of a Legend

2011-05-26T14:32:00.001-07:00

David Schmitt was a killer dude in every aspect possible. He was a great friend, great member of his family, and sort of the guy who always went out of his way when doing anything. The sky was the limit with David and his smile brought happiness no matter the occasion. I will miss him deeply as well as the countless number of people he touched. We should all remember Dave for the awsome life he lived and the countless happy times he shared with all of us. Love you David, you are the Definition of a Legend my friend! i think i found your Kingpin!

Box Elder Creek

2011-04-19T21:08:00.000-07:00

What was suppose to be 3 days of kayaking and 5 runs turned into, one dry river bed aka bluegrass with a missing bridge on the way to the put in. Being reluctent to take no for an answer; we knew 402 cfs was being released else where. We set for bluegrass hoping for a possible mid day release we ended up finding 400 cfs in a normally dewatered creekbed. Little does any one know the cement bridge you cross before turning off of tunnel road on the way to bluegrass is actually the natural stream bed of the Laramie River. We decided to put on and run a mile and hike back out due to the fact that the river consisted of 16 miles of a super willow infested creek like run. we checked some of the topos for the run and it looks to be an outstanding overnighter run. Once the Duck Creek road opens the access may decrease the length of the run to 10 miles. anyways ill try and show a little of the headcam so if anybody feels it nessecary to explore the run a bit more please feel free. Wish we had more time than just three days.
Second day of the trip consisted of a day on one of our favorite runs, Box Elder Creek. Our original plan was to make it back into the middle box for a second d of BS falls. Due to a 3 hour late start we were unable to make an attempt on the beautifully dangerous gorge down stream. however we were able to still make it an exciting day for everybody, myself included. David Schmitt and I popped four Box Elder Cherries that day and it was hard not to find a smile on any face. no broken boats, one swim on loaf, and one dropped boat on the hike out( not saying names...Smauk) flows were min but great for the middle of April considering Casper,Wyoming is north of Colorado. After a great run down the gorge we rested a bit before the steep hike back out to the car on top. Anybody going for the middle and lower should ask permission for land access before storming across the private land. He is a super nice gentleman from what i gathered when we were granted access to walk on his path from the creek to the county road. His land sits on the northwest side of the creek after you hit the dam. if you find a blue dry bag and a tripod hit us up..
Third day we decided to hit the park and throw some down river tricks in our creek boats at the Casper Whitewater park. Fremont was on the Agenda but without an idea of the flow we decided it be best to save it for a day when you can actually get a gauge reading on the gorge. Sat and Sun the North Platte Basin Teacup graphs read blank for everybodies info.
It turned out to be a great weekend regardless of the fact bluegrass was a skunk and a couple of the creeks werent quite primed for runoff. Soon enough the fruits of run off will be enjoyed! stay safe everybody

Mike first scoop of triple scoop

Chase with a quick shot of wild turkey

Jason hitting the electric boofs than about to kerplunk into the wall.

Schmitt thrown down the Dung

Fremont Canyon spring stout

2011-04-02T15:36:00.000-07:00

Fremont Spring Stout from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

It was the end of March and i just scored my first strokes on quake. I still needed more so I decided to head down to my early season mecca, Casper Wyo! Joined with two of my good buddies, Luke Sutton and Austin Woody we rallied one of the best early season runs in my own opinion, in regards to amount of time and money available...Fremont Canyon is a tight little gorge 45 mins south of Casper. The difficulty of the run is dramtically affected by the presence of sieves which come into play at different levels. Because of this, the last drop ,guarding the exit of the gorge, becomes mandatory at certain levels as well as unscoutable from with in the gorge, this gorge lies above the steel bridge. At 1800, the flow in this edit, the two drops above geranimo are easy class IV with low consequence, the top gorge with the john fremont feature have a similartiy to that of Cross Mountain Gorge with a easy III+ rating allow any one to soak in the scenery after a great blast of water at the start of the canyon.. Cheers to a great season ahead! Stay Safe

March lap on Quake

2011-03-28T21:32:00.000-07:00

Everybody including myself seems stoked for the year to come. Heres my first strokes of 2011, little late but at least its got enough juice to get me off the board and back into a boat.

Quake and Bake from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Late Season Goods

2010-12-12T17:38:00.000-08:00

I had the opportunity to get in a great late season run a couple weeks ago. The Big Thompson is a super fun medium volume river that had some excellent releases late into the fall this year. Similar in character to many of the runs along the Colorado front range, the Big Thompson provides a range of different class runs, like the neighboring Cache La Poudre and St. Vrain drainages.

It had been a couple months since I had last gotten in the creek boat and firing up the fairly technical class V section had me a little gripped. But after a shaky and exciting first lap it was smooth sailing punctuated with clean lines and rowdy boofs. By the third lap Leif Anderson and Conor Flynn were ready to run the often skipped crux drop of the run, Garbage Disposal. I’d say it’s an applicable name especially if you find yourself upside down. The 12-13 footer is whirlwind of sharp rocks with a fairly narrow landing, and is certainly no place for the boof impaired. The guys both had awesome lines and from there we made our way downstream for another lap. With the sun setting over the ridge by 4:00 we decided to call it a day, and what a day it was. Despite the cold, late fall boating is always a great time.

Happy boating, see you on the river

Casper Whitewater Rodeo 2010

2010-11-11T16:18:00.000-08:00

Casper Whitewater Rodeo 2010 from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Thanks to the Backcountry Kayak School for organizing the event and big props to great sponsers for there continued commitment NRS, Predator Helmets, AT Paddles, Rocky Mountain Sporting Goods. Enjoy a little clip

Bad Addicts short

2010-11-10T18:17:00.000-08:00

Bad Addicts from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Just a little footage of the shenagegans that kayakers go through, in fall and early spring. Enjoy local Cody bad ass ED Conning and friends, on the shoshone for a fun low water run of the upper goods in November.Also enjoy a solo run of the not so classic South Fork of the Gallatin from this last Spring.

Fall Update...Mid November

2010-11-10T15:24:00.000-08:00

Ed Conning getting his stroke on, ''customs"

Kayak Culture of Cody, gotta love Hot Springs

Fall update.. yes the rivers are low.. Gallatin, Madison, and Yellowstone are all still running. I have only been able to enjoy 2 of these rivers, the other has sweet goods that shall be layed to treats soon enough. besides getting in the water a couple times a week up this way the snow has just now started to fly. Good news for this spring i hope.. and for a great new hobby, snowyaking.. anyways, its November, I was able to make it to Cody for some quality IV for this time of year. Hopefully I will have something sweet planned, in the next couple of weeks, if plans turn out for the better.. so with that here's an unload.

night driving

walking up to the goods

Roberto seal launch

Beautiful day on the Rio

Cody Groms

Luke Sutton last bit of "entrance exam"

Roberto, "customs"

Beauitful water line at the hot springs

October in Montana

2010-10-04T15:41:00.000-07:00

Year Round Kayaking, here on out!

Oct in Montana HD from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Britney Hiking the trail next to "Go Right" or "mank"

I received a phone call, from my mother, today, from good ol Casper, she's worried i have become "obsessed" with kayaking, I cann't deny that. September was a Sweet month for late season boating. I was able to make it down to Gore fest with Luke, Baker, and Toft;mainly thanks to Luke for driving up to Bozeman to enjoy some Gally and pick me up. We also were able made it back into Fremont Canyon where Luke and I made the Second known full descent of the canyon.

Luke Sutton amongst it, The Jackalope

Fremont Canyon, Polish Gnar Bar from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Fremont Canyon is one place i can see my self being drawn back to particularily with more H20. We enjoyed a much steeper lower canyon than we anticipated; and ate crawdad's at the take out, at least 3 miles of lake paddling in a gorgeous canyon luminated by the setting sun.. paddling out and reaching the take out by 9 was the plan and we were able to beat the time by 20 minutes, and still have time for a beer before the flatwater.
Continued to stay wet on the Gally and managed to score some laps on quake. As October aproached the amount of times i look at a map increases as well as gauges, i was wasting some time on the buzz, when i received a message from Nate, yo Pots, or soemthing i was mildly incoherent as an instant jolt of the shit i crave hit me, "Kayaking... Pots.. Stillwater.... Novalty..Pots Falls in.." is about all i could pretty much comprehend at the moment.. I love to kayak, Big Water, to the lowest shit pill mank creeks most people wouldnt care to look at(east fork elk horn creek) doesnt matter to me. Sometimes this is good but sometimes you do find yourself in places of question; brings me to this...

Author,Drop into the Wall

Glenn Watt, Drop Into the Wall

last of the upper pots

The Pots, of the Stillwater, is beautiful mile long section, of canyon, that so happens to be the put in for the woodbine; as well as the take out for the 3 day mission on the Upper Stillwater. It felt like a miniture version of Big South and PoPo Agie squeezed down to one mile. Perfect for those paddlers just needing a quick fix. Overall this Mank novalty was well worth the effort and gas from Bozeman, containing over a hand full of well placed boofs. I had pleasure of enjoying the whole creek top to bottom. Does get boney but it all goes..

Glenn Watt Dropping in

Author, Pots Falls

stoked for more mank

author, tight pot in every aspect

Henry's Fork of Snake River, Lower Mesa

2010-08-27T10:38:00.000-07:00

Teague Manley below the beauty

Henry Fork of the Snake River and the sweetest park and huck in the Rockies. Couple pics and a vid of the Henry Fork with a little more water than usual.

Henry's Fork Highwater from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Tie'n The Knot

2010-08-04T13:01:00.000-07:00

Beautiful view of the Laramie Range

Alot of boating can happen in 4 days. specially when you are getting married.. so here's some pics and a vid of my awsome Bachelors party

Chillin between Laps

Thursday, no water in Bluegrass, went to Poudre ran one lap through uppers, 2 through middles and 7 laps thru lowers, finished the day at bridges..

Lower Cache Narrows

Friday woke up and drove to Gore because Bailey wasnt running..meet up with Ian and we popped 2 gore newbies cherries that day and we partied because we could, steak and fries over the pit..

Ian getting some Gore

Routing thru

Sat, 630am seal launch into the fog above gore , just me and my sensi, no portage no scout. 900 packing up shit to drive back to poudre..1at race meeting stoked to see everybody2pm racing and feeling the burn but still keeping leaders in sightraced 2 more heats making semis, swam in the pool after the finish line. drank up immediately, ran shuttle for my boys watched them lapand finished the night drinking beer on a shredder on bridges..

pre-race Gore

Pat Toft 630 am stoked to be at Gore

Sunday drove from fort to Clear creek and popped 3 cherries this morn, on the black rock section.. than hit the super sweet top section of Bluegrass on the drive back to the 307 this afternoon..just want to thank everybody for boating and having a killer time

Puttin Black Rock Clear Creek

Here's a sweet little vid I put together. Fun 4 days of paddling

Bachelor Party from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Fremont Canyon, 2600+ cfs

2010-07-19T10:22:00.000-07:00

Geranimo from above

Just going to throw up the pics cause the short write up is on the previous post.

Alcova outflow

Luke Sutton Entrance to 1st Gorge

Fremont Canyon, 2600+cfs from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Busy Boating update

2010-07-18T15:53:00.000-07:00

Been alot of boating going on like their should be, Henry's fork at 2200 with the GYGK's Tegue, and Austin, than ventered back to Wyoming where I am posting this.. Totally happy today just chilling and sitting back. Luke put together a great Rodeo on his birthday none the less, so found it fitting to take him out and get him into a super intimate gorge.. Fremont Canyon was def stout. trying to figure out what the aprox. flow was but the gauged outflow for Pathfinder Reservoir was reading 4800+ and depending how much was being taken undeground we estimated flows to be about 2600-2800cfs give or take a bit. Fremont Canyon has stomped my expectations.. the main gorge above the bridge contains one super choice class 4 rapid dubbed sitting bowl for the chance to sit and chill and do your thing before entering the partially unportageable gorge and the following drops are of the highest quality. The two remaining drops are amazingly stout, Class 5 paddling in an intiminating gorge due to no possible safety and some big ass sieves.
The second drop is alot steeper than it looks from the top as you scout on the way up..i dubbed this one Cali Classic due to the big water boof you stomp river right off a sweet tonge flake, onto a bad ass lateral toilet bowling feature, than get juiced back to the right... The enormious wall splits the flow making a very difficult looking eddy to exit, on river left. I remember paddling up plan was to move left to right, as we paddle to the horizon i said right due to the giant wall... The 3rd drop was originally dubbed Caveman due to the nasty shit on the right but the fact is the entire drop contains over a hand full of hidden seives.. We dubbed that biia, Geranimo for one of the toughest Natives, The Upper Canyon above the main gorge contains a sweet pool drop entrance rapid dubbed John Fremont. After that sweet entry rapid you paddle up to the would be car size boulder seive section and best way to compare it would be Royal Gorge of the Ark, and the Mad Mile section of the Gallatin at peak flows.... Big Laterals, Big pour overs, and alot of fun in general.. This run moved up my list to Top 5 which includes. Big Timber, Big South, Henry's Fork, Boxelder Creek... still got some editing too do for some Mesa and Fremont footage as well as some Rodeo action... been a really good weekend, vid and pics coming really soon.

with that i want to give a shout out to my boys GYGK and throw up the link for teague's sick vid of the Sweet action from the Henry's Fork and Lower Mesa Falls...

Macho Munchies

2010-07-10T02:41:00.000-07:00

Just another update. Casper Wyo has been going off this year. Fremont Canyon ran for the first time since 84', Luke, David, and Jason layed treats on the sweet class IV gorge.
Macho Munchies ran for the first time in 4 years and I cant say how nice it was seeing the features at the Casper Whitewater park how they are suppose to be. Deep Bouncy wave holes.
David Schmitt was on Rodeo Tour most of the summer and is Wrapping up on the slave as we speak living out of the leaky truck which is still no match to my new 93' red chevy lumina.. steezzzy , sorry for almost breaking your nose before Team Trials bro..
I, myself have been enjoying the highwater treats around the area and many many laps up the hyalite canyon before it stopped running this last week. Waters dropping out quick, so get boating!

Macho Munchies from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Upper Hyalite Creek and Big Timber Creek POV's

2010-06-13T14:29:00.000-07:00

Photo Andy Janoski; Mike Perry Oowweees wooees,

Photo, Justin Merrit: Mike Perry, ZZZZ post pinch fun shit

Photo Justin Merrit: Mike Perry Gambler

Montana doesnt take long to grow onto anybody.. It's official, I'm hooked on the area and dont see myself leaving for a while now.. Here's a little POV action from Upper Hyalite Creek and the ever so stompin Big Timber Creek. Both runs were lower than one would like, but one must take, what one can. He shall not waste this precious substance, called Water. Enjoy

Big Timber Creek

Upper Hyalite

Deer Creek POV

2010-05-25T06:54:00.000-07:00

Deer Creek at a really sweet level with Mike, Austin, and David....>825cfs

Deer Creek >825cfs

2010-05-23T06:56:00.000-07:00

Austin Woody super classy BOOF

Deer Creek is one of the most unique gems in the Casper area. Located east of Casper 20 minutes, running north from the laramie range, the creek drops through some sweet layers of earth, while the run is prodominately granite theres some other rock layers mixed in aswell. As far as flow; we estimated the flow to be close to 1000cfs. Do to the fact that Boxelder gauge was 825cfs; Deer Creek is a bigger drainage all together, w/ less irrigation before the putin. The lower canyon is the highest quality read and run, holes and boulder drops.

driving up the swichback to the put in

Austin, Dschmitt and myself arrived at the Banner ranch gate just before the beginning of the meadow between the upper deer creek plateu and the main platte basin. The weather was ideal for hiking the 2.5 to 3 miles to the put in at the beginning of the lower canyon/possible take out for the upper canyon, if resorting to plan b is the better option.

classic deer creek read and run

The canyon consisted of one main gorge after a sweet 3/4 mile of stout read and run. exiting the gorge is the crux of the run. Gilligans island leading directly into the Vorox. mostly straight forward rapids; the island is undercut and a giant sieve. After some more read and run, the squeeze box comes up on you which is a granite gorge that has the creek flowing direclty over the bedrock. It's super fast and has unusually big holes! My favorite rapid on the creek hands down. The run ends with some good read and run to the take out, where you have one long ass shuttle to the put in and back out to the interstate.

Mike and Austin vader boof blue angel

Giligans Island, V+ lead in to the vortex, its a big rock/island with pine tree growing on it is also a undercut seive.

Vortex from above

not much of a release

stayin upright on the sub

Paddling my ass off out of the pit

sweet false lip drop, with a nasty seive trap on left side of big rock, about to hit the hole and get a little rodeo action

Pre Squeeze

Austin and Mike, Squeeze Box Blue Angel

post run 307-stokage

Chillin at the take out waiting for Pops the shuttle driver

Low water Quake solo

2010-05-09T13:35:00.000-07:00

Its that time of year when you want to go boating so bad that your dreams are overwhelmed by boating; and when you are boating, its almost as if you were dreaming... and so it goes.

The season is early and every year i want it earlier. Just moving out to Bozeman this last fall has been the greatest decision i could have made; with all the great options with boating and boarding. i have had little time to actually do something with this website. So heres to Casper Wyo. My hometown(unfortunately) which has taught me many good lessons and was the unlikely place were i started boating some decade ago.

So to start the season, how about little Quake Lake solo POV. Quake was running lower than recommended flow on any website, at a drastic 650cfs. Quake is a unique stretch of river most any class IV or V boater would enjoy.

Quake Lake from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Bluegrass Creek GoPro Cam vid

2009-09-01T18:08:00.000-07:00

Bluegrass Creek Wyo from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

just some bluegrass vid. flow was at 360 cfs. good days not to eventful just some good stuff.

Bluegrass Creek, Wyoming

2009-08-09T23:25:00.000-07:00

Stampede

Bluegrass is a very unique gem with beautiful drops in the most unlikely of places! located in the Laramie Range. some pics of 514 cfs which is the wheatland #2 outflow which is tunneled underground to the ditch where it comes out of the tunnel. the ditch isn't a natural stream bed so be careful in the first 1/2 section.

Stampede Breakfast Boof- Mike Perry, pic by Luke Sutton

514cfs is nearly eddlyless for the first 1/2 mile and damn near out of control for somewhat normal creek bed. vote between 240 cfs to 514 is hit to it high and juicy!

S turn directly above Bucking Bronco, tiny blurb is Mike Perry

switch boof on Bucking Bronco - Mike Perry, pic by Luke Sutton

Another Poudre video with Luke first time on Whiteline,different level and angles from earlier poudre vid. also some Bluegrass vid at highwater to mix it up, Bluegrass season is here. batteries died on bluegrass in the middle of the goods so only have the first 2 drops and alittle of the run out. enjoy

August Blues, sort of..... from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Jackson Juniors.

2009-07-31T15:16:00.000-07:00

Wyoming Whitewater Championships, Jackson Hole Snake River. just couple pics of the juniors ripping Kings Wave. These kids are the next generation of Wyoming Paddlers. Rendezvous River Sports and the Jackson Kayak Club do a hell of a good job with the program in Jackson. keep ripping

Air Max

Teague

Early season ricon mission...Laramie Range

2009-07-31T14:53:00.000-07:00

Do or Die

barely wide enough but should go with alittle more water.

Sheep Eater Falls(right is nasty)

couple boofs below do or die is this sweet looking waterfall into a cauldron, 12 footer w/ shallow LZ on the left

standing on the same rock as above looking down stream at the beautiful hidden paradise.

Luke and I went looking for some goods one rainey weekend. After a decent drive through the mud and country side aproaching an ominous mountain we drove to our destination. hiked 2 miles to find that we've been skunked by a a flow 2 inchs lower than needed for a low run through. But found another possible early season classic.

assorted goods

2009-07-21T16:14:00.000-07:00

Black Magic Women from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

some mixed vid's; Falls Creek, Grey's River Boatercross, Gallatin River, Middle Fork Popo Agie River, Fremont Canyon and Miracle Mile of North Platte River.

MirAcle Mile, North Platte River

2009-06-26T15:07:00.001-07:00

Lukea putting on below Kortez Reservoir

Good ol mirAcle was running high. Luke decided to motivate and we went 2 days in a row after work. It is located about 1.5 hours south of Casper between Kortez and Pathfinder Reservoirs The Platte was being released at 4300 cfs through the Kortez Dam. The run which turned out to be a awsome class III, with one fun IV with possible seive consequences, was a great time and would be fun for beginners. To say the least... miricle mile is good stuff with more than likely anything over 3000 possibly 2400. one really sweet drop to run with a seive and a nasty hole down the gut was the drop immediately after putting in. We were also rewarded with a sweet play wave near the put in. luke decided to name it Miner Delight cause he was sure delighted to find such a sick wave and there's a actual Gold Mine less than half mile south east. don't know the beta on when the wave is running but will try to keep some tabs. just under 4k was good and same with 4300cfs. Multiple take out and put in options are available. BLM camping is available almost down the entire run.

Kortez the Killa(seive on river right)

water coming through the seive between 2 big rocks. entire drop looks pretty small in this pic

Miner's Delight

Box Elder Creek GoPro.....

2009-05-13T06:29:00.000-07:00

Freedom = the shit dreams are made of from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

some afterwork video of my favorite run with my favorite boating buddy,David Schmitt.

Poudre River Narrows, gopro camera test

2009-05-12T11:13:00.001-07:00

$Cache Money$ from Mike Perry on Vimeo.

Bates Creek, Casper Wyo.

2009-05-03T21:13:00.000-07:00

Bates Creek, Casper, Wyo.

IV's,V's(V+, NR)

1st D Pat Toft, Mike Perry 05/02/09

Putin in looking at the south west face of the Deer Creek Range(headwaters)simulator gorge, looking downstream. good class IV, and some techy pool drop V w/pin spots.
After the simulator theres a mile or mile and half of bluegrass veriety III ranch creeking. Some boulders but enough to keep you busy. The walls of the canyon are clearly visable as you paddle up and it gives a sense of adventure, good and bad.... 150 was min for the gorge and 240 would have made it alots of fun. The gorge walls start working there way sooner than expected with the gradient picking increasing till the gorge proper.

Pat Toft Micro Machine

beautiful colors in the gorge.. life is everywhere. and we are livin it.

sorry for the trees, looking down into the already pretty walled up gorge, with view of the canyon rim.

Gobstopper
most of the water inbetween looked like this pretty busy and desperately in need of more cfs.

Pat Toft solitude on Bates Creek.

Pat Toft running don't swim

Captain Crunch unrunnable at anything under 225 cfs to be safe. ledge and rock in the middle left and right could possible go. easily portageable right left at low flows don't know about eddie access when flows come up. more good class V in spots and IV and III for the remaining couple of miles to the take out bridge.

The take out bridge and the level. The top of bottom beam would be ideal and this is why.

overall if i had the option of running this creek again at the same flow id have my shit ready in 2 minutes.. road access does partially limites those with 4 wheel drive only and it is so worth the work. private property so im not going to post access for all on this little gem.. if deer is to high and same with boxelder chance are this could be killer.

Box Elder Creek

2009-05-01T22:50:00.000-07:00

SOLITUDE at the Electrik Slide

BOX ELDER CANYON, BOX ELDER CREEK IV,V(V+'s)(NR)

Glenrock Wyoming.

Pics by Mike Perry Boater: Austin Woody

Wild Turkey

Electrik Slide

DungBallFalls

Loaf in the distance, on the right, looking small; almost out. pic By Luke.

Putting on in at the edge of the dense foam ,at the bottom of the second drop. Looking at the hike out and at the top ,next to the rock outcropping, is the parking. Funny Right.

Boxelder Creek afterwork run to Wild Turkey

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Boxelder Creek is like a women. Some pleasure and whole lot of pain. 100 min is the lowest for enjoyment, if only paddling to wild turkey. The more water the more padded and of coarse more pushy. 150 min is doable for the rest of the canyon including hairy beaver, possibly loaf and of coarse electric slide and dungball. take a look into the nasty before commiting to far.

some pics of monday 4-13-09

first 2 drops on triple scoop

mike rocket launcher pic by luke

mike wild turkey pic by luke

Fremont bridge to bridge.

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Fremont Canyon-Paradise. Here's some pics of the inside of the gorge.

David Schmitt

Fremont canyon is beautiful. thats all i can say.

David and Jason

D Schmitt big rock portage

this is why we portaged under the big rocks.

Fremont Canyon, Wyo

2009-04-03T09:14:00.000-07:00

Fremont Canyon could be considered the Black Canyon or Pandoras Box of Wyoming if it had some water. Flows yearround 73-75 cfs from Pathfinder Dam to Alcova reservoir due to water being taken underground for electricity generation. Due to seives and not enough water flow the gorged out canyon is beautiful yet hardly called whitewater. the upper canyon before the gorged out section has the John Fremont boof( named after the original 1st D by John Fremont and crew way back when in the date of wood army boats.) Could be combined in a double day with Mircle Mile, south of Pathfinder Reservoir and putins at Cortez dam.

Upper Section at the end of the Farm Country class III

Luke - John Fremont Boof

Luke- John Fremont boof

above the car sized boulder section

looking back at the car sized boulder section

some grantie
end of the upper and start of the gorge.

Casper Whitewater Park, North Platte Release 4K

2009-04-03T08:39:00.000-07:00

Twice a year the North Platte River outside Casper Wyo has flucuating release, from Grey Reef and Alcova, that reach the Casper Whitewater park from 3:00 till dark. The flows flucuate between a min of 500 cfs and a max of 4000 cfs which is a good start to a great time. The Casper park is a big water park most of the features are good at between 2k and excellent at 5k. Here's a couple of pics of the 4k from this last week, only a couple good days due to continual snowfall. Total of four features, all have some sort of play at this level., whether it be down river, green waves, holes, wave holes, mini barrels.

Luke dropping into Paradice(top feature). middle has a nasty little backed up hydraulic.

Luke- running Macho Munchies(3rd feature)

At about 4500cfs Macho Munchies turns into a kickass wave. You can actually surf the green wave at this level, beautiful wave. Blunts and spins are also possible. The hole will hold and is partial to keeping boats in for long rides.

2009 kick off party

2009-03-25T12:58:00.001-07:00

Cody Wyoming. Shoshone Canyon, low 400 cfs 03-21-09

class III,IV

This blog is intended to help get some of the casper area and other wyoming creeks into the scoup of others so you can have the chance of enjoying them as well. It will also help serve as a half way wyoming creek and river guide if need be. This is not intended to tell you were to boat or how to boat it only a reference for creeks and rivers. Enjoy

Wyoming legend Ed Conning with the correct form on the rock boof at the put in to the upper upper canyon. This is the seived out Rock referenced in the New Testement by Cutch and Stafford.

The upper Shoshone is very unique to say the least. with year-round flows of about 100-150 cfs, it makes it a great early season/ creek practice and its a great run period.

The upper contains couple 2-3 foot ledge drops and couple 4 feet drops and one good 6 footer. The bad part is it only lasts about 1/3 mile. At the end of the creeky section the power plant puts in the rest of the water depending on flow.

Robert Grant- in the pool in the middle of "Top Drop"

Steve and Ed from cody. David on the shelf and Robert in the hole

David Schmitt "Head Job"

Steve and crew at the bottom of "Iron Curtain"

Great trip and great turnout for early season wyoming. I would like to have taken more pics of the lower canyon which contains entrance exam, customs, iron curtain and a good juicy rapid called Pinball. don't think to lightly of the class III Entrance Exam we had a close encounter with the undercut wall resulting in a yardsell and what could have been a horrible swim.

Take out: is off Demaris road near the end of town and the beginning of the mouth of the canyon. head north towards the river staying left on the forks.

Put in: is either at the Hayden's bridge for the lower canyon and at the drainage culvert on the north side of the highway at the pull off nearly parallel to the power plant. DO NOT SLIDE down the culvert. Once down you can either carry across the bridge to put in above s-turn or you can continue on the road for about 1/3 mile until you walk through the tunnel. immediately after the tunnel to your left you will see the seive and big rock you put in on.