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SALIVATION CREEK
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:56 pm
by CAPTAIN ALEVE
I'm able to hike again; took a brief look at a creek in a 195 feet per mile valley with an astounding 7+ square mile drainage area, meaning it should run often. It's a boulder garden; the drop below looks flatter than the six feet it is. The foamy spot is only about a foot and a half deep so I don't think a boat will vertically pin there. More scouting needed.
Captain Aleve, alias Mike Coogan
Re: SALIVATION CREEK
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:42 pm
by MaxTexan
glad you are on the mends
Re: SALIVATION CREEK
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:06 am
by CAPTAIN ALEVE
The drainage area is actually 10.8 square miles, making it one of the best fed steep creeks in Arkansas. I have not found any reference on the internet to it having been run before.
Sycamore involved in an intimate relationship with a cobble bar on this creek:
Captain Aleve, alias Mike Coogan
Re: SALIVATION CREEK
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:53 pm
by CAPTAIN ALEVE
Re: SALIVATION CREEK
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:55 pm
by prophet
wow that looks good, maybe too good for me
Re: SALIVATION CREEK
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:09 pm
by Tmuse
Very nice looking creek! How bout some beta?
Re: SALIVATION CREEK
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:56 am
by razorback
All ears!
Re: SALIVATION CREEK
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:22 pm
by Roger
Could be wrong but I'm thinking that Mike is still "mining" up in Cleburne/Stone county area.
Re: SALIVATION CREEK
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:42 pm
by CAPTAIN ALEVE
I don't like carrying/dragging my boat much, especially uphill; that would be necessary to take out as far as I have scouted. I don't want to scout down to another take-out area until after modern gun deer season ends (Jan. eighth) since there is a deer camp right along the creek.
I might have to walk parts of it. Dave Creek in Fairfield Bay is as steep, and I have run it, but it is much friendlier due to a lot of bedrock. Boulder piles are a different story.
Captain Aleve, alias Mike Coogan
