Granite Creek!

Whammy!!! That's right, the feeling that you get after finishing a two day exploratory project in Northwest Montana. First D?, Second D?, 100th D? Who knows, or for that matter, who cares. A winter's worth of research, several day's of driving, hours spent bush whacking through the woods, getting’ bit by mosquitoes, slipping through soggy, snowy, rainy, and muddy forests, having thorns ooze blood out of your skin, without gettin' wet, it wears on you! Once you take that first stroke in the crystal clear waters of a beautiful backcountry creek you know it's all worth it. The water may be clear, but the outcome of an untested drop is cloudier than Billy Bob's vision after sippin' some montucky moonshine.

Northwest Montana is littered with hundreds of creeks anywhere from rippling brooks to bone crushing mank, all backed by some of the lushest mountain ranges in all the Rocky Mountains. We had spent several day's working our way North from Bozeman, exploring run's that were new to our crew, as well as hitting up classic such as the Kootenai. We had spent the first few day's driving around on a wild goose chase for boatable creeks, they were either too low, too manky, or heinously wood infested. Our crew was breaking down from the lack of actual boating; we started getting at each others nerves, until I dragged everyone up the trail for one last chance to explore. Things were looking mediocre from the trail head, but we had hope. That's right! We had heard rumor of a waterfall 2 1/2 miles up the trail that squeaked through two giant boulders, and plummeted into a deep pool below. We made our way up the trail, poking our heads in and out of the creek bed to scan for drop's and potential hazards. Our pace steadily began to increase until there was a steady pounding amongst the trail. My pulse began to race, my mind drastically started zooming past my body with imagination.
Desperate eagerness clung to our smelly tattered clothes as we screamed around each corner, the creek transformed into this incredibly clean, oh so boofable haven with drop’s stacking up one after another. We quickly came to a halt and all agreed that rushing back to the truck’s to grab our gear would be the only way to satisfy four lonely dudes. We haven’t gotten any action in a while, and this was definitely going to satisfy our H2O addiction.

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