Week 41 9.4
Slatestep Creek Stepped slate plates the width of a kitchen table, loud enough that you stop talking.
Slate stepsCold in August
The archive
Every creek that has held the week since the first, in reverse order of honour. Scores are final. Appeals are not read.
10 creeks honoured
Week 40 9.1
Halvard Run Spring-fed and glass-clear through a coulee the glaciers forgot to flatten.
Spring-fedTrout
Week 39 9.0
Ouzel Brook Moss to the waterline and a dipper that works the same forty feet all morning.
MossyDippers
Week 38 8.8
Pennywhistle Creek Limestone shelves and a green pool deep enough to jump into, barely.
LimestoneSwimmable
Week 37 8.7
Cold Sister Creek Snowmelt at four degrees. Nobody has ever stayed in it for a full minute.
SnowmeltAlpine
Week 36 8.6
Fernhollow Beck Runs in a sunken lane under hazel; you hear it a hundred yards before you see it.
Sunken laneFerns
Week 35 8.5
Alder Sluice Beaver-managed, which the panel counts as landscaping by a qualified party.
BeaverAlder
Week 34 8.4
Quarryman's Rill Falls through slate spoil in a stair of small, precise waterfalls.
Slate spoilSteep
Week 33 8.3
Tilikum Creek Rainforest dark, with salmon in October and nobody there in February.
RainforestSalmon
Week 32 8.2
Mica Fork The bed glitters. It is mica, not gold, and the panel finds that funnier.
High countryGlitter