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BearPen Branch-side
creek of Duskin
Creek.
Water Quality (1 bad 3 good)
Scenery (1 bad 3 good) 
Class III.6
(overall)
Length: < 1 mile
Avg. Gradient: < 200
fpm
Shuttle Service:
For Shuttles contact the following # 423.365. six nine zero zero.
For # 5 dollars a head or $25 a car load. You can get a shuttle. Your car will be driven to the take-out.
Overall:
BearPen Branch is
a nice little side
creek that runs into
Duskin Creek
on
river right , right
before the cascades.
This run adds
more excitement to
the Duskin Creek
trip. It was first
paddled by Mark
Cumnock on a solo
first
descent on 08 May
2009. You can hike
in to the creek to
run it, or better
yet at the cascades,
hike up and run the
good
drops.
Put-in #1
Drive past the
Duskin Creek put-in,
go on top of the
mountain, once it
flattens out, start
looking on your
right, for two
yellow
poles with a
cable running
through it. From
here hike down the
old road. Always
bear to the left
when following a the
road.
You will hike to
the confluence of
two ditches that
come together to
form the branch,
this is where you
will start to paddle
at
normal water
levels.
Put-in #2
Paddle Duskin
Creek, once at the
cascades look for a
creek coming in on
river left, follow
BearPen upstream
hiking up on
(River left
downstream) You will
follow up a old
narrow gage railroad
bed. It will take
you all the way to
the good stuff.
Min Level:3.5 ft min on
Piney Gage.
A better way to
tell is to paddle
Duskin Creek and see
if it has water, if
does take a little
side trip.
Maps:
Watershed Map
(to find
location and size of
creek)
Click Here
Special thanks to
Steve Zerfos for
making the map.
Topo Map:
Click Here A special thanks to Randy Hale of NorthRiverGeographic
for the map
Map:
Special thanks to
Randy Hale for the
topo information and
map.
To see the map below
in better detail
click on the link
below.
This is a picture of
the hike in.
(Picture taken
during a scouting
trip)
Don't worry this
signage is a left
over from the coal
mining in the area.
You can hike in and
once you hit Duskin
you hiked up the Duskin
hiking trail for
about a
mile or so to the
Duskin Creek put-in.
This creek comes in
on river right above
the cascades on
Duskin.
Here is a shot of
of the minor rapids.
Picture below was
taken during a
scouting trip.
This is a nice
series of easy fun
rapids...................
This is about a
15ft
slide...............
After
this the major
rapids come into
play.
Here is shot of the
approach to the 30ft
cascade slide/drop,
you run a notch, and
then the creek opens
up.
Here the approach to
the Cascade, the
humidity was
terrible, and the
camera kept fogging
up. I took the
picture by hugging a
rock before hucking
it. I about screwed
up trying to get
this picture :
( This is why you
don’t solo : ) Its
steeper than it
looks.
Here is a shot of
the run being
cleaned out during
the 1st D'
This is one of
the run out rapids,
the picture was
taken during a
scouting trip.
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