Upper Vallecito Creek-Los Piños River | Packraft Linkup

4-day route in the San Juan Range's Weminuche Wilderness. Los Piños River (~550 cfs) from Vallecito Simulator gorge through Lake Creek gorge, followed by a hike past Emerald Lake to reach upper Vallecito Creek (~500-450 cfs) at Rock Creek, paddled through the warm-up boofs for the classic gorge run. So far, separately, Packrafts have only descended the full Vallecito gorge at flows of 150 to 325 cfs.
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[@ticklefritz5406]

Now this is livin! Nice work fellas.

[@samrichardson2641]

badass dude

[@Dan-rp7il]

doing what other can only dream. Amazing

[@landonsawaya]

Nice! After all these years of exploratories, now we get to see which runs you feel are worth repeating

[@jeffreycreamer]

I think I've been into upper vallecito 6 or 7 times now, if that's a measure. Definitely more wood now than Ive seen before, but the best upper gorge section is wood free for the first time in 10 years at least.

[@JustinBaker2567]

On Vallecito, did you paddle past the point where the trail first drops down to the creek?

[@jeffreycreamer]

Just barely - there are two good drops there where you can still take out above entrance falls.

[@faerthenfelix6419]

Are those Valkyries?

[@jeffreycreamer]

those are valkyries

[@FFelix-yf1ir]

@@jeffreycreamer Looks like you are getting great performance out of them--they cut hard into those little eddies. But the roll is still somewhat hypothetical, it seems ;)