The Steamboat Pilot & Today

Steamboat kayaker Nick Hinds blasts over A.C. Slater Falls, in the northeast reaches of Routt County on Wednesday afternoon.

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Joe Carberry sticks his landing after dropping the left side of A.C. Slater Falls on Wednesday.

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The long county road winds south and east up the pastures of the Slater Creek valley toward its headwaters and steepest sections of whitewater.

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Steamboat kayaker Nick Hinds spots his landing over A.C. Slater Falls, in the northeast reaches of Routt County, on Wednesday afternoon.

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Joe Carberry takes the first strokes down an unnamed Class V rapid beneath A.C. Slater Falls on Slater Creek of the Little Snake River.

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Nick Hinds takes the first strokes down an unnamed Class V rapid beneath A.C. Slater Falls on Slater Creek of the Little Snake River.

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Steamboat kayaker Adam Mayo runs an unnamed Class V rapid on Slater Creek beneath A.C. Slater Falls on Friday afternoon.

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