This little beauty runs into the Sacramento River right below "Mears Creek Falls aka Triple Drop". The run we did on it is short and fun with quality class IV creekin with one larger rapid. This rapid has a somewhat technical entrance with a 5' ledge that needs to be boofed with your boat landed angled left to avoid pitoning.
One last look at the larger rapid
Here is a video of the larger rapid.
We boogied on for a while, then Jon's new Grateful Heads helmet came unclasped while he was rolling and took off. It eventually dissapeared under a creek wide strainer, the only portage of the run. We traded helmets back and forth, and eventually came to a tunnel under the freeway. After the tunnel is this long rapid:
Jon finishing it up.
Take the Sims Road exit, and drive into the putin for the Sims-Sacramento River run for you take out. Turn back around and head straight past the freeway on-ramps, and take "Fat Bear Way/Mears Creek Road" (signs say both) drive up as far as you can and put in. There is a nasty rapid just above this putin, but if you are motivated to hike there are probably good rapids upstream. Not bad for just off I5. It normally flows after rain storms, and in these pictures was flowing when Box Canyon was too low.
As of 4/1/06 Mears Creek has acquired a new log jam just before the tunnel of love. At low flows we were able to duck (sketchy) on river left. High flows will probably go over the logs, but they could be bad at medium flows as the creek wraps around a left hand turn into the logjam and tunnel.
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Hey, I was wondering how technical the line up is for the 'triple drop'? Is it portagable if needed?
I'm interested in running it when it flows again, and as far as the logjam goes, is it still in affect?
Please get back to me when you can.
Thanks.
Triple Drop is on the Sacramento and comes in below Mears Creek. It's more of a big water than technical move, some big eddylines and squirrly currents at the top. Easily portaged down the left if you seal launch in at the bottom. No logjams on the Sac. The logjam on Mears Creek is still there, one halfway down the run with a good eddy and another above the "Tunnel of Love" that doesn't have much of an eddy. It can be worked over on the left at low flows or the center at higher flows.
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