Since last February when I ran Mosier Creek Falls and had my accident I had wanted to go back and do it again, this time learning from the major mistake I made the first time. Make sure theirs safety down below! Every time it rained I would drive out hoping for a flow of what I had run it at the first time or higher. It was always low, but I'd stay there for a while looking at my line.
Finally on January third a friend was telling me that it looked like there was a lot of water in Mosier creek. So we took off work and drove over there, we got to the takeout and I could tell there was more water then the first time I had run it. I was getting excited and was planning on running it that day if everything looked good. So we walked up to the falls and to my disbelief it was about ten times higher then when I had run it the first time. From the instant I saw the drop I knew it was un-runnable, it was way to high. It was a really amazing sight though all that water in this small creek. The slide itself looked good but the entrance had a huge hole and the base looked like a really hard hit.
So I wandered up to the top of the drop, the lead in 10 foot slide had turned into one of the ugliest holes I had ever seen on a river. There was no way around it and the boil from it was taking up the whole pool above the big drop. I stood there looking into the hole for about ten minutes, and about every thirty seconds there was a full sized tree plugging the first hole and resurfacing right above the big drop and then disappearing out of sight. I was pretty amazing to watch. While standing on the rock above the drop I could hear and feel boulders tumbling past me, it was really quite creepy, just knowing all these rocks may be gathering up at the bottom of the drop. I didn't get any photos or video of this day but it was really an amazing sight. So I took off and decided to look at it the next day.
The next day when I arrived the water level was perfect, slightly higher then the first time I ran it and it looked good. The
only problem was that there was a huge log blocking the left entrance into the slide right where I wanted to go. I looked
at it from many different angles and for a very long time. I could tell I wasn't going to run it, my line was blocked by wood.
I had also looked at the right side of the drop and it looked runnable but I really didn't want to fire it off, after all
it had never been run and after the first thirty feet it landed onto a rock shelf. I left but Heather and I made a few phone
calls to some other people.
Mosier vid 
Eric Boomer being the first person we called.
"Hey Eric, you were thinking of the right side last year, you should check it out now."
After talking to him for a bit he said he was going to grab his gear and head out there with a couple people. So when he called me back Heather and I headed out, and we met Boomer, Josh Bechtel, Tao, Jock Bradley and Barney B. After scouting for a short period Boomer and Bechtel decided to run it. Boomer was going first and Josh was holding safety down below. They had talked on the other side of the river for a while and then Boomer headed up top. After a few minutes he came over the first drop boofing the hole and eddying out on river right. He got situated and started over the drop, he was right on line and forty fived the first part of the drop and disappearing after that. He came popping up below the drop upside down did a quick roll and avoided the cave on river right. Everyone cheered and you could tell Boomer was excited, he now claimed a first descent on both sides of this drop. Boomer came running up from the takeout and told us all about it and talked to Bechtel about what went on. Josh decided to run it. He disappeared for a while and then came from around the corner not totally boofing the top hole and shot up in a bit of a stern squirt. He regained control and lined up for the big drop, paddling towards the lip he looked so small. He took his boof stroke at the top and had a very similar line to Boomers, only Josh disappeared about a third of the way down and popped up at the bottom. He also resurfaced upside down doing a quick roll and also avoiding the cave.
Josh and Boomer both had great lines and made it look relatively easy, it was great to see the right side of Mosier Creek finally get run. I could see possibly running the right side of this drop in the future but I want to run the left side first again. It was a great day and we got some great footage and pics.
~Nate~