Trinity, North Fork

We tried running this again in early June, 2023  from Grizzly Creek down. I assumed that the huge snow year would have blown out the logs, but instead it pushed them all into big jams around every corner where the river constricts. Hobo Drop has a log jam just below the recovery pool. If you swam in the recovery pool you could probably get to shore on time, but there is a good chance your boat would end up in the log jam. Shortly after Hobo Drop we encountered many more log jams tucked into swift blind corners. Knowing that were about to enter a long, slightly constricted whitewater section (probably class 3 at these flows) with lots of sharp corners, we decided to pack up and hike out. The rest of the river looked fairly clear when hiking out, so we slightly regreted packing up, but it was a very long day of bushwacking portages all the way from Grizzly Creek down and we were over it.

Grizzly Creek had enough water to float, but it was completely choked with logs.

The most recent fire had minimal impact on the river corridor.

I currently can't reccomend this run. I'll come back here some day and see what it's like.

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