Hello,

I used to run the Raging quite a bit (or at least when we could catch it at a good level). It rises and falls fast with rain so it's often hard to catch at a good level.

The wood situation got really bad a few years back and that's why it doesn't see much use these days.

My last run there was 3 years ago and there were many portages due to logs, a couple of which were a bit sketchy.

There's been several good flushes since then, so maybe it's cleaned out some. The last time I did a drive by (a couple months ago) the only blocking wood I saw was in Cheese grater, but it looked like it blocked only half of the channel. Of course, there's a lot of the river that you can't see from the road, and that's where a lot of the wood has been in the past.

Maybe this fall when there's some water in there I'll check it out again and see what shape it's in. If someone is thinking of running it to probe the wood situation, I would highly recommend going at Low levels, like around 300 cfs. You can get down the rapids just fine with a bit of scraping at that level and you'll have an easier time stopping for and portaging wood.

Even at more medium levels (500-600) this little river gets pretty fast... and altough the whitewater is really fun at higher water (~1000) I would only run it at those levels if you know the run is squeaky clean.

AFAIK the incident was in the late 90's...

Have run the Raging a few times. It's better with more flow....900 - 1500. Haven't been in on it in a few years so don't know current wood situation. There's a spot after it goes away from the road and above Cheesecrater that collects woood.   Little canyon is nice but very short.

Bump!

As my wife regularly points out, I'm a glutton for punishment...and I'm really only interested in the lower section from the bridge to the Snoqualmie.

I do like MM and the SF of the Snoqualmie, the Green, the Sky, etc, but the masochistic nature of this calls to me...sort of like big walling used to.

My approach is a low water run at first to check it out (and post new beta or warnings as appropriate) before trying to bomb down it with a higher flow and then with caution.

Joe - thanks for chiming in with the very useful information about the flow for a scouting run.

 Might be worth adding to the river beta page - as that's something I'd been wondering about after hearing about the wood potential and the continuous gradient. Might help to get more intrepid souls on the river and more info out there.

In less ecologically minded places back East I noticed an inverse correlation between the traffic on wood prone runs and the length of time that wood hazards persisted on them....

We live on the river and I'm sure my BF would love to run it. He works from home, so let me know when you plan to run it. It looks clean where I live, but we're within a mile or two to where it meets the snoqualmie.