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Description

'A mean little creek.' Shackleford Creek drains the west side of the Salmon Mountains and flows through a chunky gorge of decomposed granite and metasedimenatary rock as it descends from of the Marble Mountain Wilderness Area to the Quartz Valley, and arm of the Scott Valley. This creek hasn't been run much since the early 00s, but the namesake waterfall at the bottom has gotten more attention than the full run. Sadly, the falls was the site of a kayaker fatality in 2003 and another fatality in 2022 that did not involve boating. The only guidebook for this run is Dan Menten's 2016 classic, _The New School Guide to Northern California Whitewater_ (p. 56).