Jackman creek 

Skagit  drainage

class IV-V

The adventure starts when the "plan" ends

So finally after three attempts at reaching Jackman we were determained to get some boating in.  So when the snow got too deep to it was time to start dragging boats.  Lets just say we had only just begun to experience the challanging adventure.  Enjoy the few pictures that were shot, since we spent most of our day    hiking to put in, and the epic hike out was a whole new experience.

Begining the long journey to put in.

stop to take in the sights... and more oxegen

Still hiking

Finaly able to see the river below.  Which at this point doesn't have near the water we were hoping for.  

The never ending snow field, it keeps getting deeper!

Brett decides hiking isn't good enough running is better!

The rapid at put in is choked with logs so we put in just below

after two hours of hiking in deep slushy snow we finaly were at river level 

today is a good day to have a rock boat.

One of the many tributaries cascading off the walls 

Scott takes his time making his boof stroke count

Just  below one of the multiple log portages.  Though we only portaged about five times in five miles there were plenty of situations where the normal thing to do would be portage, but since we were running low on light we were forced to run them if we wanted to get out of there in the daytime.

This is the nature of the entire run.  contineous class four with a couple of bigger drops

Eddy hopping our way down tight boulder gardens checking for tree's around every corner.   

The next three pictures is of the biggest drop on the section.  at first glance we were thinking portage,  but with a closer look it was good.  The line was right next to the old growth  stuck it the middle of the river  boofing underneath of it

Paddling off into the sunset the last place of beauty before the grueling hike out. 

It took us two hours to hike up this hill.  It was the steepest and hardest hike out any one of us had experienced making it a full day of adventure.

Looking down the canyon were about to boat through

I would not reccomend attempting this section until floods come through and clean it out.  we were lucky that the water was so low. Otherwise we would have not been able to eddy out above most of the tree hazards around EVERY corner.  Although when this section cleans up it will be five miles of epic class four-five boulder gardens.  The hike out mixed with the possibility of wood around every corner will probably keep most from attempting Jackman creek.  But if hiking for four hours and boating for three sounds like your type of adventure then this is the perfect place.  Once the wood is gone.

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