After 3 years of trying to do this river, running into problems usually with road access and or low water and or obligations with work etc., I finally got it! The Big South starts on the western boundary of Rocky Mountain National park and the 12 miles of pristine wilderness river runs through Cache La Poudre Wilderness Area.
Josh Bechtel blessing us with his presence walking down to the river.
Demshitz walking on some snow

It’s a really chill run, mostly pool drop, a great river to get started into class 5. The 3 big drops, Cool World, Meltdown, and Double Trouble, are easily portaged, but Demshitz hate portaging, so we ran demshitz.
Cool shot of Josh
Graham boofing Cool World
Jared below Meltdown
Me running Double Trouble (water droplet ruined the pic)

We did have one portage towards the bottom of the run. We called it Siphon Falls. The top part had some wood and a 10′ into an undercut shelf. We put in below it and it was A-ok to the bridge take out. Good times.

So, thats it for the demshitz tour. Graham flies back to his roofing job in Philly tomorrow, Jared is going to jail, And I am going to drive all over America in a few days. So, Ill let ya know when I get to kayak again, don’t hold your breath.
Demshitz will certainly be reunited by Gauley fest in September, hopefully sooner, but yinz should come dan ner in@ and have a few with dem.

Heres a pic of Demshitz going to court.

Posted by David Fusilli

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 6:24 pm and is filed under Creeking Articles, Paddler Lifestyle Articles.