Day #22, Lower Clear Creek and Lower Boulder Creek

Today started off kind of slow. It rained all night and all of our gear was wet. In addition, it was very cold out (40s in the am). We decided to find a laundry mat to dry our gear and maybe do a load of clothes. While the clothes were going I went to Wal-mart to get food and supplies. We finally got done with our errands at about 11:00ish and headed up to Dumont and the Upper Clear Creek section to scout/paddle. Everything looked good to go, but there was no one around to paddle with/set shuttle. With the cold and lack of shuttle opportunities we decided to go paddle Lower Clear Creek again and hook up with Brian and his crew for an afternoon run.

We got to Lower Clear Creek about 1:00 and it was super fun............as it was the first time. We bombed down pretty quickly and were ready for a lunch break. We went to downtown Golden and checked out the local paddle shop and ate. I was feeling a bit scruffy, so I went to a barber shop for a hair cut and shave...............that is right a shave!!! It was my first barber shave. It was very relaxing.............with the hot towels and warm shaving cream. If I were a rich man I might do it more often although I don't know if I even could back in the South. I tried to get a shave in a barber shop in North Carolina once and the barber said "We stopped doing that a while back because of the AIDS". lol. I guess the Colorado shops didn't get the memo. ;)

After the barber shop I took my dog Logan for a walk. As I was finishing up Edgar came walking down the street very excited telling me it was time to go and meet everyone to go paddle.

We met up with Brian, Trent (Brain's cousin), Mike, Shawn and Kevin. Their plan was to paddle either Left Hand Creek or Lower Boulder. We found out that Left Hand was too low, so off to Lower Boulder.

Lower Boulder was a fun run. It was very continuous like Lower Clear Creek with very few eddys. It was about a six mile run that went very quickly. It was great to paddle with Brian and his crew. They were all super cool. I hope we can paddle with them more.

Tomorrow we are hoping to hook up with another one of Brian's friends, Ian, to go paddle Big Thompson. My fingers are crossed! :)


Jason