I am IN

What time do you want to meet ? 10AM ?? At the takeout bridge ??

I have paddled it at levels from 600cfs to 1800cfs

It's a fun quick run

I wanna play!  pm'd Grinch for details, standing by.

Sounds good, if I'm not there by 11:00 I'll try to scramble to be there for lap number 2. But if somehow I'm not, don't wait. I'm assuming the take out is 436 st bridge.

Sorry yep, passing as well.

Hmmmm

Chris, I thought you would be there..... ;-)

He'll be there.

1:00 at the 436th ave se takeout.

All the much talked about wood was either covered or gone.

There's a couple new logs a hundred yards or so below the first foot bridge. This is right across from the little amphitheater that is on river right. Though we had scouted from the river left trail before the run and saw these logs, I think they would pretty easily be seen by alert class III paddlers. We eddied out on the left below the bridge, above the wood and close enough to get a good look at the wood. It's a wide shot on the left and was easy to pass the log and get back to the middle to avoid some questionable water features below the logs on the left.

I think the Alice gauge was reading 2400ish by the time we put on(3pmish). I would call the difficult parts of the run easy to moderate class III. It was nothing like hard class III. Though the water was pumping, it was still pretty manageable for class III paddlers. It had that pushy feel like water does when it's getting out of the banks and into the trees but it's still sorta mostly a class II run, getting a little out of hand. :-)

Though there were fewer eddies, our group of 5 still managed to all eddy out together several times and even a couple of times in the canyon.

It's all pretty cool as long as you don't bumble into one of the nasty holes or pourovers, one of which bears a striking resemblance to Cookie Monster on the Middle Middle(is that Surprise?).

I love that boof. Especially when it's not a boof but a, "sh*t, there's nowhere to take a stroke."