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Talkeetna River Points
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Use a floatplane and fly to Murder Lake and descend the 8 miles of bear infested Prairie Creek. It is a shallow creek with logjams and bear jams and is used by kayak groups and never by rafting parties.
2
The take out requires no planes and involves pulling in to a public boat launch on river left just 1 mile above the river mouth at the town of Talkeetna.
3
The best spot to put in is at Yellow Jacket Creek, about 20 miles from the Talkeetna Glacier, even though the gravel strip itself is not a favorite of some pilots. But groups do go there and it is where we recommend you go. By starting at this point you have good hiking in the upper alpine mountains.