Well, after a week boating every day on some cool stuff in CO, I broke my collarbone running a ~37 foot waterfall blind. Moral of story — if you drop into a tiny pool flowing straight off a big horizon line and there is an eddy right at the lip from which you can neither scout nor portage…just run the damn thing, because you’re going to run it blind either way and you’re probably better off with some momentum through the ledge right at the lip. Also, when you’re putting on a creek that’s super steep — try to find the normal putin before putting on above a gorged out section that “looks pretty flat.”

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