Trout Run

Description: This run starts in Portage PA, up 164 across the street from The Last Chance Tavern, down a bit of a coal road, you will see a culvert bridge spanning it that was recently installed 2022.  It will require a lot of rain or snow melt to have it run.  It is one of the main pollutant's to the Little Conemaugh river and is essentially an old mining river.  Along its sulpheric banks old mining foundations and buildings can be seen, even active untreated AMD sites.

Scouted at 8000 cfs on the Little Conemaugh gauge, deemed runable.  It appears you can put in up in Martindale too, but it is very Micro in that area, and probably has a lot of vegetation.  There are also a few hazards one should be aware of.  Strainers also need removed but probably passable (as of Dec. 2016).  There is a foundation of an old mine and also a pipe that crosses the stream after the first mile.  Also river walls come into play throughout the town of Portage.

The creek appears to run on the higher side of a continous class 3 adventure with very minimal eddies in the first 1.75 miles of the run.  I would class it up to 4 only due to some of the hazards but most still seemed runable.  I have a video I will link in the bottom of the scout.

There also doesn't appear to be any real 'rapids' just seems like one big continous rapid from put-in until Portage, so about a miles worth of straight gradient.  Mile 1 seems continuous class 3/4, mile 2 would class it down and especially through town where it seems to become more class 2 continous than anything.  Final stretch is more than likely class 2 continous until Little Conemaugh river, I only scouted to where Kane run came in.

When to paddle: The Little Conemaugh river's season ranges from March - June.  It is runnable however all year long after rainfall, but does not hold water as well as the Stonycreek.  This stream will run on a high day after intense rainfall and snow melt.  I b

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