The Baldhead River - Lake Superior

After a few weeks back home...

Mark and my sister and some norther german `creekin`

I headed back to Canada. While getting ready for 23 days on the Grand Canyon I got lucky enough to get a run on the Baldhead river near Wawa in.

Sault Ste Marie, where I`ll be spending my winter, is not necessarily a kayaking destination. The seasons are short, the drainage is pretty small, but there are a few gems to be had around here. Every river in the area  drops off pretty steep at some point as they all have to make their way down into Lake Superior. With the local Crew around Jorma Paloniemi there are also some keen boaters around that are always good for missions.

We found the Baldhead a little on the low side but had our fun anyways. Some good bedrock rapids made the day and with the levels we had and some lines cleared from wood with the last highwater we even got two first descents in.

myself going first on the menster`s runout

Jorma trying something new

Emre Bosut and the Menster

Jorma demonstrating why they call this one F.U. drop. He broke his boat.

roostertail boof...

Emre, same drop from below

dead end used to be a total logjam - can`t wait to hit that in higher water!

Jorma loving his backyard

The run ends with a beautiful but awefully long paddle along Lake Superior`s coast to get to the takeout. A long day left us all tired, but keen to see some of those rapids in higher flows.

Out for some more scouting...

Sven