Swift

While one of the bigger piles of strainers has been cleaned up by more recent high flows, there was a reasonable amount of wood in the flow starting around 1.5 miles down from Coos Canyon. Many are sneakable around 3.2 feet (which is really starting to get too low with the gravel bars). The lower stretch from Rare Woods, till 120 heads away from the river was clean last month, except for a log parallel to the river tucked behind bedrock on the left right where you want to sneak around the ledge.

Paddled this on 10/7/11 at around 2.3 ft (about 300 cfs). This is as low as I would paddle this as it gets pretty boney. I put in just outside (south) of Roxbury on Rt. 17 (there's a great spot to park a vehicle right next to an ATV trail.) I would advise you park your take out shuttle at Swift River Falls as there isn't anything more than sporadic class 2's (just enough room to park 1-2 vehicles here.) That being said, there are some nice rapids on this stretch, mostly 2's but there is one 3 (at this level anyway.)
On 11/13/11 I paddled it at around 2.7 ft (400 cfs). Still class 2's and the one class 3 at this level. A little less boney but still rough on a boat. This is a great river for those who live in this region who are tired of Errol, NH.