We took the truck on down the road toward where the powerlines cross the canyon, finally parking it at 6:30. We grabbed our gear and followed the road the rest of the way to the trailhead, reaching the canyon edge at about 7:00am.
Some people say there's a trail that goes into West Clear Creek
Canyon here. Others call it a "use trail". In reality, it's
a drainage with some footprints in the parts that don't go straight
down. We reached the campsite spot at the bottom (waypoint 13) about 7:30 after
taking a couple of pictures on the way.
We pressed on until 8:15 when
we paused to put on our gators and fill up with water. Soon we came
to the first of 3 pools. The first 2 were easily bypassed, the third
required us to use a log bridge
on the left side to avoid swimming.
The next pool had a small waterfall at the top, which required one
of us to climb down and the other to pass the packs down.
The third pool was longer, and had an interesting
feature where an eddy of the stream had carved into the south wall.
We stopped to explore this, and found there was an underwater ledge
on the wall.
Mike did some hanging around in the third pool. 
After passing the third pool, we pressed on, soon reaching "White box",
which is a long pool with vertical, white limestone walls. It's really
in the middle of a series of 4 pools, several of which were waders,
but some of which required swimming. We passed white box at 12:45 and stopped
for lunch and to dry my gear that had gotten wet when I rolled my float. (Waypoint 21)
I kept inflating/deflating my float because I was afraid I'd snag it and
tear the thin sides.
After lunch we hit another double pool, and then a bit farther were
three more single pools. About 3:00 we reached the fern spring, and just
after 3:30 we reached Meadow Canyon. (The entrance to Meadow canyon
is rather hidden, Mike didn't notice it until I pointed it out.
If you intend to use Meadow Canyon as a bailout point, you need
to be paying very careful attention.)
At 4pm we stopped for a snack and for me to reinflate my float. At 4:45 we hit the next pool, which was a swim , followed by another swim and a wade. We reached the bend where the canyon turns back south (Waypoint 22/23) about 5:30 and stopped for the night. I'd gotten tired of inflating/deflating my float after the last stop, and kept inflated. As I'd feared, I soon snagged a hole in it. I applied the flimsy patch that came with it and hoped it would hold.
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