Beer Kill, W. Branch, NY

River Description

  This basically CL3 run. The only rapid/section that I can think of that might be considered CL4, is after you pass a lumber yard the creek picks up speed, it goes over a drop of a few feet, then it becomes a fast narrow flume. You'll see this when you are driving up to the take-out. You can scout most of this creek from the road. The other thing of note is I scouted it at high water. Had I had someone to paddle with that day I would have used markers upstream of a every strainer, although at the time there was only two, perhaps three. The reason I would have done this is because this was moving really fast and the eddies were few and micro. At this level it trumped a CL3. This is really a creek, not a river. It's not very wide at all until you get to the confluenace of the Beer Kill, main branch.    

 BTW; this was here before I wrote here and have no idea why it's here:

Local expert, Daniel Scher, 249 Munsee Way, Westfield, N.J. 07090 (908-2