Khtada River

Class 5

An all day mission, From Terrace take Highway 16 towards Prince Rupert following the Skeena River for about an hour. Khtada flows into the Skeena via an inlet on the opposite side. This requires a big ferry across the Skeena which is around 1km wide at this spot, the paddle across took us around half an hour. Look for the Power lines that cross the Skeena and just a few kms upstream you will see the inlet, you can see a small bit of white which is the last drop. Paddle into the inlet and find the track on River right, the hike in took us around two hours with a few rests, the bugs are crazy over there, be prepared!!!
Put in at the bottom of the Davis lake, paddle right for a few hundred meters to find the first huge slide and away you go....

Page 17, Northern BC Backroad Mapbook

Shames River

Class 4 5

1-3 hours on river
5 kms long , Low volume, continuous gradient, Starts out with some bed rock slides and moves into some steep boulder gardens and then some cool mini canyons. This is another classic Terrace after work run, highly recommended. "BEWARE" there was a big log jam at the bottom of the boulder garden section and we had to take a river right channel.

Put in: From Terrace, take Highway 16 towards Prince Rupert, 5 mins later you will come to Shames River, drive up the shames mountain road on river right, follow the river you will cross two bridges and the put in is the third bridge.

Take out: The take out is 1.8 km up river from Highway 16 on river right, there is a small clearing in the brush.

Page 18 , Northern BC Backroad Mapbook

Northern BC Backroad Mapbook

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Copy in the put ins and take outs yourself!!!