Lostine

Cyrille and I paddled the Lostine on June 29th at around 450-550 cfs (it had quite the diurnal I think). We put in at Tailspin, at the campground from the comment below. There was a log at the end of tailspin that went almost entirely across the river (a very small passage on the left...). Later, the river splits in two channels, both are blocked by wood. The big log jam in the gorge that people ducked under is not there anymore.

June 27, 2018 we ran the Lostine at 450 cfs. This felt like a friendly, enjoyable flow. There was a fair bit of wood in the warm up stretch, but there is a way to miss most of it.

If I went back with the current wood configuration, I would park at the unmarked campsite here: 45.359022,-117.419909

From there a short nose of land leads down to tailspin, putting in halfway down this rapid misses the majority (but not all) of the wood portages.

Last Delight Gorge, 500 cfs

Ty Overeem pushes through a hole near the bottom of a long and fun boulder garden on the Lostine.

The log jam at 500 cfs, it gets pretty tight under there as flows get on towards 800-900 cfs.