Papa Bear Falls

Scout and/or portage on the left for this big boy. The creek splits into two narrow slots around a large boulder in the middle of the 15-foot wide creek. The water drops 12+ feet from each slot into a 8-10 ft wide cauldron. The hole is worse than it appears. The first two attempts of this drop (at higher flows) resulted in long scary trashings in the hole followed by swims of the rest of the drop!
The exit from the cauldron is through a 3-5 ft wide 15 ft deep sluice that is 50-60 feet long and makes a jog to the left in the middle. The sluice forces the water to barrel roll back an forth a couple times on the way through, a flip or pin in here will be ugly. The water exits the sluice over a 10 foot drop, out into another picture perfect grotto pool. This is truly a unique, beautiful and scary rapid.  In May 2011, the first successful run of this drop occured at lower flows, followed by a upside down run resulting in a broken C7.