Red Creek is the elusive Class V+ whitewater gem flowing from the Dolly Sods Wilderness in the West Virginia highlands. | dG1fTlVJaUxZczY3Rlk
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00:00 If I could leave whitewater boaters with like one thing to think about
00:04 from the geology side of things, when they go out to a river,
00:07 something like it, it's that it's that look upstream mindset, right?
00:12 Because because that's what that's what shows you.
00:16 Shows you where the steepness is coming from, in a sense, and that's how
00:22 that's where whitewater fits into how the how the mountains are continuing to change.
00:29 It's the it's the boundary between the more comfortable low elevation valleys
00:35 and these these crazy oddball, like stranded high elevation valleys
00:40 where you run up enough drainage area to have something you'd want to paddle
00:43 in the first place.
00:45 We always think about rivers going downhill, right?
00:49 Like we're standing at the top of them and we're looking down where it's going.
00:53 The way I would tell people to to think about rivers, particularly
00:56 from a whitewater standpoint, is Red Creek is the Dry Fork Valley
01:02 like eating its way into into that bog. Right.
01:07 Yeah. So the the bog is
01:10 its days are numbered from a from a geologic standpoint.
01:14 [Music]