Tule, Kaweah, Kings, Kern, Merced, Tuolumne, Yuba, American–the names of California’s rivers are legendary in the whitewater world. Pure granite bedrock creates some of the most polished whitewater runs on the planet and the state boasts the continent’s (and maybe the world’s) best milt-day waterfall runs from the Middle Kings in the South (7 days) to the Royal Gorge in the north (3 days). On good snow years, such as this one, whitewater aficionados can start in the southern end of the state, on runs like Dinkey Creek, the Tule and the Kern, then work their way north to the upper sections of the Tuolomne like Upper Cherry and West Cherry. There truly is no place like it. And these POV vids from talented Spanish paddler Aniol Serrasolses prove it.
This is Dinky Creek, which empties into the Kings River east of Fresno:
And the Kaweah:
