Entiat Above Cottonwood
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Printed Date: 25 Sep 2025 at 11:47pm
Topic: Entiat Above Cottonwood
Posted By: Jason Orange
Subject: Entiat Above Cottonwood
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2014 at 8:16am
The past week I hiked the Entiat River Trail from Cottonwood to Myrtle Lake. The section of river from the foot bridge below the lake to Cottonwood looks like it might go in the IV+,V range. Has anyone been in there recently?
Cheers,
Jason
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Posted By: brianmaier
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2014 at 6:19pm
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I hiked into the bridge at the myrtle lake junction about 3-4 weeks ago and ran down to anthem creek before deciding to hike out (solo and a wee bit high at 1300). I have local beta that suggests the good stuff is immediately below anthem including a 20 to 30 foot waterfall. I made 2 wood portages but it looked like that would have been perhaps 4+ with lower water. Made 1 portage around a ledge with a decent toilet action. At 1300 there were no exposed boulders in the river bed, few eddies but seemed perfect flow otherwise (well except for being alone and not knowing what was around the next bend). Lots of fun class 4 (V- with lack of eddies?). I was thinking 800 would be a better go for exploring. The river is deceptively gorged out, albeit not very deep for most. I have a few pictures if you want. It was a good adventure and I'd do it again...
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Posted By: Jason Orange
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2014 at 8:27am
Sweet. Thanks for the beta. When I was there a week ago, the river was bank-full through that stretch and very few rocks were showing.
J
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