Wood and Whirlpool River linkup, Canadian Rockies Packrafting
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The route linking together the Wood River in BC and the Whirlpool River in AB, crossing the continental divide twice, was pioneered by the local team of Ben and Luke a decade ago. They were extremely resilient in the face of difficult mishaps which illustrated the whitewater and navigational challenges on the Wood River, an objective perhaps not paddled since.
In August 2024, our team spent a week on these two rivers accessed from the upper Athabasca River, running what we could at high water. We paddled the Wood River from Fortress Lake to Jeffrey Creek, and the Whirlpool from the Kane Glacier effluence to the road bridge.
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Awesome WW and great nature ❤
I am honored to share a last name with ya, esp after that wild back surf!!
Great work team.
The only, Humans, that porcupine ever saw. Looked like a great trip.
Wowza, beautiful video of what looks like a beautiful trip. If there was ever an ad for a valkyrie that worked on me, this is it 😂
Ridiculous. Amazing y’all. Keep motivating and inspiring.
10/10 - looks like a sick trip. Great double feature with Ben&} & Luke's video
One day I'll be keeping up with you. Hit 12 miles of the llano river in Texas today. Kinda sleepy. Was hoping for more rain.
I love how this video just glosses over all the obvious difficulty of the journey. I watched Ben and Luke's video a while back and it sure was arduous. Great work as always Jeff!
@gadzooks32
2 ай бұрын
remembered their video too and was thinking the same thing! The boats on their trip were also in a different category compared to a valkyrie
@jeffreycreamer
2 ай бұрын
That's a great point - We would have gotten stomped on this river with the equipment those guys had. Ben did an amazing job documenting the trials they faced, especially given how uncertain things were for them.
What a river! Looks amazing!
Another insane linkup and video. Amazing.
Beautiful river, what a great trip!
👍🏻 nice Jeff!
doing God's work gents. Holla at me when you wanna come packraft nz
@jeffreycreamer
2 ай бұрын
100%, one of these days
@packraftingqueenstown5730
2 ай бұрын
@@jeffreycreamerstanding by....
“Babe wake up, a new Jeffery Creamer video just dropped”
Looks like new boat punches waves and stays pretty dry
@jeffreycreamer
2 ай бұрын
It does pierce through waves better than larger volume packrafts, and the bow rocker helps it ride over most other features as well. Agreed.
So, now I'm seriously considering quitting my job to go packrafting in the Canadian Rockies.
@jeffreycreamer
2 ай бұрын
I'm more intrigued by that zone that any other at the moment.
Does the sediment/color of the river make it any harder to read the rapids? Similar to skiing in flat lighting?
@jeffreycreamer
2 ай бұрын
I feel like I don't have trouble in these glacial rivers even when they are very turbid. However, I have a lot of trouble reading water in our desert rivers because of the turbidity. I don't know how to explain that - maybe desert rivers have blocky irregular sandstone that is hard to predict but glacial rivers have predictable round boulders.