Clear Shade Creek, Pennsylvania, US |
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| Usual Difficulty | III (for normal flows) |
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| Length | 5.5 Miles |
| Name | Range | Difficulty | Updated | Level |
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| Stonycreek River at Ferndale, PA | ||||
| usgs-03040000 | 5.70 - 10.00 ft | III | 01h14m | 3.73 ft (rc= -0.5 ) |
For other streams in this watershed, check out:
Stony Canyon (III-IV)
Stony Gorge (IV)
Roaring Fork (IV)
Shade Creek (III-IV)
Paint Creek (V)
Dark Shade Creek (IV-V)
Conemaugh River (I-II)
Quemahoning Creek (III)
We have no additional information about how various flows affect runnability (or playability) of this section of river. If you can provide additional information, please either directly contact the StreamTeam member for this reach, or add a 'comment' or a 'report' with your information to help out your fellow boaters.
| Name | Range | Difficulty | Updated | Level | ||||||||
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| Stonycreek River at Ferndale, PA | ||||||||||||
| usgs-03040000 | 5.70 - 10.00 ft | III | 01h14m | 3.73 ft (rc= -0.5 ) | ||||||||
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| When | River/Gauge | Subject | Level | Reporter |
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| 32d15h39m | @Clear Shade Creek Crum Road (Iron Bridge) to Shade Creek [PA] |
Beginning
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6.50 ft | Chris Preperato |
| 125d16h34m | @Clear Shade Creek Crum Road (Iron Bridge) to Shade Creek [PA] |
More rapids
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6.50 ft | Chris Preperato |
| 125d16h36m | @Clear Shade Creek Crum Road (Iron Bridge) to Shade Creek [PA] |
Middle
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6.50 ft | Chris Preperato |
| 5y294d12h27m | Clear Shade Creek [PA] |
Last Drop
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4.97, 1930cfs | Patricia Hachick |
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Crum Road (Iron Bridge) to Shade Creek, Clear Shade Creek Pennsylvania, US (mobile)
User Comments
got flashed off Dark Shade and ended up here instead. We put in at the bridge on Crumb Road (after
some weird turns on back roads). The river was clearly bankfull, but I wouldn't say it was flooded.
The first few miles were moving flatwater with the occasional riffle. One river-wide tree we had to
portage. Then, the river picked up to the occasional class II rapid for a little while, and then
the last mile or so was fairly consistent class III rapids. Some cool wave trains and LOTS of water
coming in from the side streams. There was probably 200cfs at the put-in and about 800 by the
take-out. The final dam had a fairly terminal looking hole on the right, but a fairly obvious line
on the left that was a III+ move. Would have been easy to take out above it though and portage.
It's a good run as a back-up for when other runs are flooded out, since being on Dark Shade or
Stony Gorge as the river rises high can be dangerous
mostly Class 2 with a few Class 3s. There is an artificial ledge where a pipeline crosses just
above the highway and confluence. I ran it; most portaged; it was scrapy. Ten years ago, there was
some bulldozing going on along the shore, so there might be houses along part of it now, but I
don't know for sure. We enjoyed it, but it requires very heavy rains and probably snowmelt. The
western approach to the put-in is crazy-icy at times in the winter; best to find the eastern
approach if in doubt. Edit