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Having boated the Cranberry for at least 15 years, all I can say is that there must've been one helluva flood this winter. Stuff has moved around, there are more cobble rocks in places you'd least expect it, cracks in ledges are appearing in the worst places, and there is timber not seen in years adding danger to some of the usual lines.

"Tres Amigos y un Chingada" [the set of 4 ledges about 1/2 mile below the put in ]
has timber in it in spades. One nasty log in particular sticks into the normal right line in the second ledge.

The bottom ledge of this series shows the normal route turning into the beginning of a depression/fault in the "Chingada" that makes the final drop more difficult. Even if the rock that has historically backed up the hole has twisted so the nasty part of the hole isn't as wide as it was.

The left side of "Full Nelson" is getting much worse as well, as it appears the left side crack in that ledge is making the hole much worse on the left. Run right obviously.

I'd class this stirling white water gem a 3 to 5, but then I'm old school

the riverduffer