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07/01/2001
Looking downstream from a cliff below Sheepeater Camp before the 2007 fires.
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05/05/2010
The same view in 2010 three years after the fires.
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05/05/2010
Sheepeater Rapid was formed when a fire-related debris flow entered the river from the right bank and pinched the river to about half of it's original flow.
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06/09/2008
Passing the Artillery Ledge hole in the commercial sweep boat.
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07/22/2006
Artillery #1 Rapid at high water (more than 5 feet) is a fun bunch of waves and small holes.
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08/15/2006
The Artillery series becomes a frustrating rock garden at low water.
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06/09/2008
The canyon was severly burned in 2007.
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08/06/2010
Fireweed was an abundant re-colonizer among the blackened trunks.
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06/09/2008
The dramatic red trees only last for a season or two after a wildfire.
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08/06/2010
Greyhound Rapid was greatly altered by a fire-related debris flow that choked the channel with lots of new, angular boulders.
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07/22/2006
Impressive devastation after the 2007 fires with green shoots coming up the following summer.
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06/09/2008
Looking upstream over Dolly Lake Camp the summer after the fires in the upper canyon.
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06/29/2014
Scorched hillsides with green undergrowth in spring.
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06/29/2014
What the canyon looks like in June seven years after the 2007 fires.
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06/29/2014
Floating out of the burned sections of canyon near Pistol Creek.
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06/10/2008
A brisk June day on the scout to Pistol Creek Rapid.
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08/15/2001
An aerial view of the first of many debris fans at the mouth of Lake Creek after the 2000 fires.
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06/10/2008
Looking up Lake Creek after one of the larger debris flow events.
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06/10/2008
Pistol Creek at high water (approximately 6 feet).
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06/10/2008
Taking a hit in Pistol Creek at more than 5 feet.
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08/06/2010
Pistol Creek at roughly 2.5 feet in August.
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08/15/2003
One of the commercial sweep boats enters the crux of Pistol Creek Rapid at low water.
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08/06/2010
The entrance to Pistol Creek Rapid has altered as a result of the Lake Creek debris flows upstream. This is a shot of the left entrance at low water. The river right channel has sinced opened a little.
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08/06/2010
Running the right side of the left entrance.
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08/06/2010
The S-turn at Pistol Creek becomes much more pronounced (but slower) at low water.
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10/09/2010
The tranquil pools below Pistol Creek Rapid.
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06/30/2014
Pistol Creek Rapid around 4 feet.
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06/30/2014
Looking onto the Pistol Creek Ranch from a ridgeline hike. The ponderosa pines are recovering from the fires in 2000.
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06/30/2014
The stretch of river leading up to Pistol Creek was spared severe buring in 2007. Greyhound Mountain in the distance was burned completely.
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06/19/2008
Pistol Creek pools have several great cliff jumps.
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06/19/2008
Majestic ponderosa pines flank both sides of the river below the mouth of Pistol Creek.
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08/13/2008
Looking onto the Forest Service airstrip sandwiched between the Middle Fork (right) and Indian Creek (left). The river turns into Pungo Canyon in the center of the image.
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06/19/2008
A stunning arrowleaf balsamroot bloom in June above the Indian Creek airstrip.
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06/19/2008
Blankets of color in mid-June in the Middle Canyon.
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10/01/2014
A view down Pungo Canyon from just below Pungo Rapid.
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10/01/2014
Orelano Creek Rapid at low water in Pungo Canyon.
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10/01/2014
Late August light in Pungo Canyon.
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05/25/2006
Pungo Canyon has some powerful hydraulics at high water.
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10/01/2014
A commercial sweep boat nears the end of Pungo Canyon.
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10/01/2014
The final stretch of Pungo Canyon.
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07/20/2003
Boats navigate the low water challenges of Pungo Canyon.
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10/01/2014
Rowing through the calm Marble Creek pool.

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