Malad (aka Big Wood)

2018: There was a large rockfall that resulted in a huge boulder pile at the bottom of this waterfall, making it unrunnable, for the time being.

A short run with a continuous section of challenging whitewater finishing off with a dramatic falls. A fun road scout from the State Park when you're on a cross country trip on I-84.

The late Charlie Beavers did the first descent, captured in the classic film Buck Fever https://youtu.be/WMi5D-8fJ1c?t=25m23s  A horrible piton, mid-falls on a ledge, which looks like the center line. No wonder this didn't get done for years after that.

Seth Stoenner did the 2nd descent in 2009 at a much higher flow, which gives the gorge some real push...blows his skirt on impact but still paddles to shore- nice! http://vimeo.com/16751237#

Check out the video. Dan Simenc and Tyler Allyn making the third and fourth kayaking descents, filmed on June 20th, 2011. Looks like about 700 on the USGS Malad river at Gooding gauge on that day. http://www.kayakdiaries.com/2011/08/03/the-devils-washbowl/

http://egcreekin.blogspot.com/2012/09/devils-washbowl-malad-river-id.html

In September 2012,  a very solid crew of ID and MT paddlers rallied down there and made another half dozen descents of this serious drop, with most taking hits to the bottom of the boat,  2  paddlers getting stuffed into the left wall just before the lip (both with excellent recoveries), and Ryan taking a nasty hit to his left hand in the middle of the drop, and still managing a roll. At low water, you can see a rock jutting out from the left in the middle. ~400 cfs, estimating from the gauge level on that day.

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