Flathead, Middle Fork

Ran the upper with a mixed packraft and hardshell crew over May 23-24, 2026. Hiked Morrison Creek down to the river, then upstream to about 0.5 miles north of Schafer. Beautiful weather, great flows, awesome run. At the time (05/23-24/2026) there is a river wide strainer about halfway down the Three Forks series, mature tree blocking the entire channel. It's at a right bend in the river with a couple house sized boulders and an overflow channel on river right and a talus slope on river left. It's 1-2 drops above the final rapid. The log is visible from upstream with enough time to catch an eddy at our flows (around 6K on the West Glacier gauge and rising) but if it was high it would have been more tenuous. Easy portage, a crew with a 14' raft was portaging when we got there. Sorry no photo. Just a heads up if you're running this stretch.