For the WFFB uninitiated reading this page, you definitely want to boof the ledge at the bottom of the first slide. There is a pothole in there, and I have watched it piton and pitchpole a very good boater who mis-timed his last stroke. At 3", it really doesn't want to let you get to the right wall to skim around the ledge with that small tongue. Middle, it seems, is where the pothole is. Most successful seemed to be entering middle at top and heading left, then throwing a righty boof off the lip. That drop is so much fun when you hit it correctly, but please don't take it lightly due to the pothole.

On March 5 I and a guy named Dan from Boatertalk spent the afternoon cutting strainers out of the West Fork. We spent several hours on the logjam in one of the middle  drops of Jim Sheppard Rapids, the long Class IV boulder garden. <br /> <br /> I waded across and chainsawed the logs, which averaged 8-11 inches in diameter, into pieces about 7-8 feet long. Dan stayed on river right and hauled the logs into eddys over there using his throw rope which I binered onto each log. <br /> <br /> We were quite careful as we cut through the strainer pile, which was completely blocking a 3-foot drop about 6 feet wide halfway down the rapid. There were a half dozen logs stuffed in the only navigable drop, as well as a railroad tie and the remnants of one of those river tubes (maybe it was left over from that guy who was videotaped tubing Pothole Falls awhile back.) <br /> <br /> While on river left, I also cut smaller strainers upstream and downstream in the rapid. Then holding the chainsaw over my head I waded back across and we sawed up the six or seven large logs into sections no longer than 4 feet.  We carried some above the high water mark, but they were waterlogged and heavy as hell, so we ended up stacking the rest in a cleft in the rocks on river right about 6 feet above water level. We also removed another 10-inch diameter, 8-foot log that was stuck under a rock upstream of the former bad strainer. <br /> <br /> On our way out, I waded back across the river and cut an overhanging rhodo branch that has knocked  several paddlers over in one of the final drops. It is all clear now and good to go the next time it rains.

Could the person who posted the Class V tubing video please repost it as an AVI file? I can't open it as is and I really want to see the carnage. Thanks

Hey Everyone, <br /> <br /> The tree that was blown down during the flooding in September 2004, has been removed from the river-right of the 3rd slide on the West Fork.

I watched a bud pin in the pothole in the first drop. He was paddling a Cruise Control set up as a C-1. He was ejected out of his boat hard enough to rip out the thigh straps. After that, I ran right.

I hope the photographer doesn't mind my resizing his photos and adding commentary. Please contact me if this is a problem.