Mandatory Portage

This is a nasty undercut drop with a terminal hydraulic and is a mandatory portage. 

As soon as you pass under the high bridge over the creek be alert as the portage is exactly 1/4 mile downstream. Keep an active watch for Fivemile Creek on the left. It enters Clear Creek with a 10-foot waterfall. The eddy for the portage is on the right side of Clear Creek immediately after this.

The eddy is small and will hold two kayaks at best during low flows and only one kayak in medium or high flows. Stagger eddy entries so you don't have a frantic pileup here. The current is swift and the lip of the drop is immediately below. Stepping out of your boat can be sketch here as the bare bedrock can be sick, the water is deep, and the eddy is small.

Complete the portage around the nasty part of the drop on the right and seal launch back into the champagne bubble water in the run out of the drop. Several fun rapids follow immediately and then you'll arrive at the horizon line for Cottonmouth, the last large rapid of Upper Clear Creek.