Redwood

An anonymous user provides (2010-06-12):

I explored this river earlier today and took some pictures which are the first 6 photos uploaded. These pictures show the upper portion of the river, including the falls that are just south of where most people put in. I would consider 700cfs low runnable, which is about what the pictures are showing. Anything 500 cfs and less is too low to run for sure.

Another report (reprinted, with minor edits, from Rapids Riders message board, with the writer's permission):

In the middle of town is Ramsey Park, a large municipal park, and the Redwood River flows through it. You can see only glimpses of the river because it flows through a steep gorge, some walls easily over 100 feet tall. Also in the park is Ramsey Creek. There is a trail that goes to an overlook of Ramsey Creek Falls, a 35 to 40 foot falls. The pool looks deep and there looks like a line left of center with a bit more water than was flowing over last Tuesday. (It looks cleaner than falls such as 'Almost Always' on the Lester, which does get run often when there are medium or higher flows.) Ramsey Creek flows another few hundred yards from the falls into the Redwood River.

After some exploring I found the put in: A small pedestrian bridge crosses the river over the second dam, immediately at the base of the dam. The dam is the top of this big sliding falls with some fast flumes of water and big bursting holes. There is a theoretical line where the green lip flows over the center of the dam then a flume into a exploding hole that looks like it might flush you. (I didn't run it.)

I put in below, into grayish water class II+ and class III wave trains. After a 1/2 mile or so (the whole run is a mile and a half , seems shorter then that) the river makes a 90 degree turn left, there is a hole I skirted it to the right. (This must be the classIV listed on AW) immediately after the hole (10 feet or so) was a really

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