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Wells Creek

Jule's guidebook has a good write up with gps coordinates.  It took us about 4 hours to hike the 8 miles to the put in.  Of course you could go higher if you wanted a bit of a braided warm up, but that's what other rivers are for.  

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Expect about another 4 hours of paddling.  We ran it at near floor stage and everything was read and run ranging from II through -IV.  The major feature was closer to class V, but at lower flows it would be a IV.  

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Confluence of Nenanna and Wells Creek taken from Denali Highway mile post 117

Log cabin remains before pulling ridge. 

Wortman gets eaten by bugs
Muddy section on hike into Wells Creek

River picks up pretty quickly after put in

Main Rappid on Wells Creek

Big rocks and features

The main rapid will change from class IV to V depending on flow.  At high flow it was pretty spicy.  I elected to portage but Erik was braver than me. 

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