| Region: | River: | NTS Sheet: | UTM Type: | Zone: |
| Labrador | L'Anse au Loup Brook | 12 P | NAD27 | 21 |
| River Description: |
| A great overall III-III+ run with some more difficult rapids. Go at it in high water or it will suck. |
| Difficulty Rating: | Hardest Rapid: | Flow Information: |
| III | IV+ | High water is in late May to early June. When we did it |
| (early June) the water is up in the trees and we still had |
| to scrape and push over some rapids. |
| How to get there: | Gradient |
| Put-in | Northing | Easting: | Section: | Avg |
| 5710320 | 510025 | Distance | 3.2 | km |
| Drive up the dirt road west of the bridge – head inland for | Gradient | 19 | m/k |
| three kilometers – when you reach a lowhead dam used |
| for water storage, put on and run the river! | 101 | fpm |
| Take-out | Northing | Easting: |
| 5708219 | 511758 |
| The take-out is at the bridge on RD. #510 in the |
| community of L’anse au Loup. |
| Detailed Description of the River |
| First Known Descent: (2002) Stephen Arns, Kevin England, Ang, and Dianne Noseworthy |
| River description is contributed by Stephen Arns. |
| Rapid descriptions may not be in the correct order!! |
| The 2 tiered lowhead dam at the put in is probably runnable as it is very small, but we didn’t |
| run is as it didn’t really look that exciting. Directly below this is a shallow bouldery section (II) |
| that you may want to walk around just to avoid the stress of hitting rocks! |
| The first few rapids are straightforward II+ - III rock slide type rapids. They get progressively |
| bigger as you continue down the river, and offer a multitude of lines. The last rapid in the |
| section is a triple drop (III). There are lots of eddies and it is fully boat scoutable, however |
| you may want to be careful in the final drop, which is a slot – I really banged my elbow on a |
| submerged rock! |
| Things start to get much more interesting below this, however I do not remember the order of |
| the drops! |
| One set of rapids begins with a 8’ slide that can be run on the left, avoiding a significant hole |
| at the bottom. A short pool leads to a bigger (12’) steeper slide that dumps into a bigger and |