Flathead, North Fork

A fun, partly cloudy day from Big Creek to Blankenship. It took us just under 4 hours with a couple brief stops at this level (3,200cfs). There are a couple fun wave trains before the listed rapids on AW and Paddleways apps for this section, but nothing too complicated.

Upper Fool Hen was a bit longer than expected and had some ugly looking hydraulics in two places river left. These are easily avoidable if you stay in the middle as the river gradually bends to the right.

Lower Fool Hen could be run either right or left of the exposed boulder at this level. Left is trickier because you might cross into a rather strong reciculating eddy directly behind the rock.

The Ledge did not look fun. Your upstream view of it was partially obsctructed by a small wave about 20ft before it. There was no problem going left.

The Flathead Valley Paddling Society group on Facebook had some helpful info on rapids (including the SAR post screenshot about the Shelf/Ledge/Wave) and shuttle information (XCLSVE Shuttles).