Video: Coast Mountain Chronicles: Kowatua Creek

New video by KarenWoodard: Located deep in the largest roadless watershed on the Pacific Coast and coursing through a landscape studded with glaciers, azure lakes, and 800-year-old trees lies pristine whitewater. Often overshadowed by the Stikine and Alsek rivers, the expansive Taku watershed holds the promise of tight boxed-in canyons and a max gradient of 450 feet per mile, right on the edge of navigability.

On satellite imagery, it was 170 miles from Tunjony Lake, the source of Kowatua Creek...