This creek has three main drops, Certain Death, Big Falls and the Final Five. Certain Death is usually portaged, when you park your car at the bridge their is a old road that goes along the creek that has a gate blocking it. Walk down that road until you see a path leading to the river and this will bring you right to certain Death. At a first glimpse it may not look so bad but once you try to find you line it usually ends up through a hole, a nasty boil/eddy or an under cut rock. At this lower water the entrance is fairly shallow and right below that is a ledge that you really want to boof after that you make your way into a narrow section with boils and under cuts and then you get to test you boofing abilities. This last drop out of certain death is very sticky plus if you do decide to do some rodeo creeking and you swim it can push you into a cave that is under cut, What fun! Certain Death has been ran and swam, and I have heard that someone has swam the whole thing from top to bottom, not my preference but they made it through OK.

Then you will go through some class II+-III and have a good time talking with you friends, then comes big falls, a 30 foot double drop. The first drop consists of a 2 foot ledge that very shortly leads into an 8 foot one. run the two foot ledge where ever you like and the either boof the eight footer one river left or melt it on river right. Then about 15-20 feet downstream comes the fun 18-20 footer, it can be run either river left or right, people have pitoned on both sides. The right side is more commonly run, if you run the right side in the middle you should be able to pencil it, or if you like you can also boof it, lots of fun either way. Then if you run the river left side of the drop do not go to far left, if you find yourself behind a curtain on the left side be prepared for lots of rock, if you run it to the right side you will either hit an auto boof (but be careful at lower water their isn't much aeration so lean way forward if you do) or you can make a nice drop on the right center of the river left side.

Again after this falls you will run some more fun class III rapids, until you come to the Final Five. This consists of five drops, the first three back to back then a break and then the last two back to back. The first ledge has an auto boof on the river left/center side (its kind of tough to see in the picture, but when your their it will be easy to find) and it should be a fairly easy line. The second drop consists of about a four foot pour over which can get very sticky so throw the best boof you can, because I really wouldn't want to swim the next drop. After the boof at the second ledge it will bring you right into drop three, this one to me is by far the ugliest, the current pushes you right into an undercut wall that has a huge pile on it, you want to run this one left center, try to miss the under cut and pile as much as possible without going to far left into an eddy that will push you back upstream back to where the current pushes you into the under cut. After the third drop you can catch you breath and relax until you come to the next two drops these I have ran on the far river left side, bouncing down the rock slide, I'll take my chances sliding down rock rather then testing my cart wheeling ability in my creek boat. The last two drop are basically one, these can be run down the middle but if your lucky enough to make it out of the first hole be prepared for the stickier one at the bottom. If you do end up swimming out of the bottom drop you will have a huge pool to recover. Another half mile and your done with Copper Creek, but in a half mile it will run into the East Fork of the Lewis river, and it will place you about 1 mile above Horseshoe Falls.