Bear Creek, Montana, USA

Bear creek flows down a old glacier canyon over very smooth even gradient bed rock. It has a steep gradient of 450ft per mile and a hell of a lot of lumber in the river. The lack of eddies and large amount of strainers makes for some interesting full on class 5 paddling.

On the trip I was there we ended up hiking out after 3 km because 2 members from our group found themselves in a log jam due to a thunderstorm that doubled the flow of the creek in under 5min. I am looking forward to going back in to run the whole length of bear creek in the near future.