Gila

Ran Kelvin down to Cochran 08 June 2020 at 500cfs. Bank erosion is a problem, most likely caused by the number of cattle in the area. Many more trees have fallen into and across the river in the last 2 weeks. The 80cfs increase over 2 weeks ago has made many strainers much more of a challenge. The current is substantially more pushy and the space between water and branch has shrunk. We had one flip when a branch got stuck through the arm hole of a PFD while attempting to navigate a strainer thus pulling the paddler out and flipping the boat in the process. Luckily, once the paddler's full weight was on the branch it broke and set him free. We ran this section with a car shuttle. We dropped the 1st car at 8:20am, on the water at 9:45am, at the takeout car around 2:15pm, and after washing all of the sticks, spiders, and leaves out of the boats, we were back to the put in car around 3:30pm.