From October 2005
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SF of Silver Creek is most well known for it’s more difficult upper reaches, but below Icehouse resevoir, there is a gorgeous, fun dramatic Class IV. With an average gradient of 70 feet per mile, several class IV rapids and literally miles of continuos Class III rapids through dramatic scenery, this should be a popular run, but hardly anyone has ever paddled it. It’s been choked by the dam upstream, and the stream bed is normally just a trickle. Last spring, rumours of water being released led a group of …
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