NOT Kayaking Cataract Falls - Indiana's Only Class V Waterway
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Pancake and I took a weekend trip to do some paddling, pedaling, and bouldering around Indiana. We started at Cataract Falls, according to RiverFacts.com, Indiana's only Class V stretch of water. It's late October in Indiana and it has been rainy so we were hoping the water would be up. Neither of us had been there so we didn't know what to expect but we had the GoPro's ready and I'm determined to inflate my glorified inner-tube of a kayak and take it down this one mile strip of rip roaring waterway.
The falls are beautiful but as far as we can tell that is all that constitutes the class V rating - 2 approximately 15ft' vertical drops. The rapids between appear to be somewhere around class I-II. It's drizzling rain and cold and despite the constant rain the creek was still not anywhere near its peak, which is supposed to be in July. Air temp is in the 40's but water temp is whooaah cold and glancing from the water that I'd surely be swimming in and my one and only search and rescue crew, I opted to live to paddle another day. So I'm setting the date for July and Pancake and I and whatever other friends we can drag down and we'll be going over those falls.
