Hayfork Creek

700cfs estimate from Dreamflows.

Ted, Michael and I put on a beautiful spring day. If this was 750, I wouldn't have wanted to do it at 400, which Dreamflows has as the low flow mark. I wouldn't come back with less water.

Pretty, easy run. Not much rapids for the first half, then a few class III with recovery and one pretty intense IV Fraggle Rock that we portaged due to a huge log clothesline at the entrance river right. With more water the river left line around the huge boulder would go, either with a boof over the ledge or a sneak down the far left, but those weren't an option for us. Definitely scout this rapid from the road when you set shuttle, it's easy to see.