Hirsch Creek

Class 5 "This run is the fuckin shit"

4 hours on river, To get to put in drive 6.6 km from take out bridge( locals call it the jumping bridge), You should find an old overgrown road on your left,walk down it for 50 meters and then turn into the bush on your left, bush bash hell fuck your way through it for 15mins or until you reach the river.Really nice run, goes through a canyon with 200m high walls. Gets really constricted in the canyon to about 5 meters wide in some parts. Loads of awesome drops, some really hard rapids and some really hard portaging. The locals call this one their "Gem" and it is totally amazing, one of the best runs I have ever done. Would be a wise move to take someone who's done the run before!!

Check the flow here

http://scitech.pyr.ec.gc.ca/waterweb/fullgraph.asp

Province= British Columbia= HIRSCH CREEK NEAR THE MOUTH

Anything from 0.6 to 1.1 should be good
Good luck and enjoy,

Page 18 and 19, Northern BC Backroads Mapbook

Kleanza

Class 4-5
3 hours on river. Several tight steep low volume canyons. Clean(we had one portage). A really nice solid run, continuous easily managable drops in tight canyons with must run situations. Definitely a must do run if your at Terrace. Access by logging road on River right.

Page 34, Northern BC Backroads Mapbook

Williams Creek

ROCKSTAR

Class 5
2-3 hours, Basically two large but runnable/portagable class 5 steep slide drops.Both are amazing,super photogenic. The put in is a bridge that crosses the river roughly 16km up logging road on river right. After the drops paddle 7km of class 3 to the bridge(this is the put in for the Mid Williams)

MID WILLIAMS

Class 4 and 5
2-4 hours , Lots of really fun drops, two solid rapids/drops that are easily portagable. This is a local after work run "Everything goes"

Page 19, Northern BC Backroads Mapbook

Wesach

60 foot park and huck (ten minute walk)
Runnable, photogenic with a challenging lead in or a seal launch option to skip the lead in.

Page 33, Northern BC Backroads Mapbook

Kinayakwa

Class 4 and 5
3-4 hours on river,mostly boat scouting wood choked steep boulder gardens. The river constricts into a nice clean class 4 canyon with a very different and refreshing feel to the manky start to the run. Surprisingly we completed the run with no portages.

Page19, Northern BC Backroad Mapbook

Tchitin River

Class 4 with one class five rapid(portagable)

Located in the Nass Valley, 2.5 hours drive from Terrace(you won't find the take out on your own) Take a local guide!! This run is an 11km easily managable canyon, suitable for a class four paddler.
a visual extravaganza, 10/10 Scenery.

Page 47 Northern BC Backroads Mapbook

Legate

Class 4 5
Put In, Drive 4km up logging road on river left.
3 hours on river,Short,Dirty,Manky,Wood chocked 2km canyon,with must run situations.Hard portaging.We had a great time. A really good half day of hell fuck.

Page 34, Northern BC Backroads Mapbook

Carpenter Creek

Class 4 5 6
5 hours on river,1.5km on Carpenter Creek,must scout everything,lots of wood,portages.
This is an all day mission, don't be fooled by the short distance,Expect a day of hell fuck portaging and lots of really nice drops.The last drop is an amazing 50 foot slide with a huge kicker halfway down. Paddle 3.5km down the skeena to the bridge(take out).

page 34,Northern BC Backroad Mapbook