Salt

started on Salt at 800 on 3/6/20. Ran the first five miles and it 4 hours in rafts both gear and paddle rafts. It is just too bony down to camp 2. If its this low save your energy and ask your shuttle driver ahead of time to start you out at camp 2. This is where all the guides live during the season.
Once past this point the rocks are not near as bad and you can make it the rest of the way to the take out without too much incident. Remember between 800 to 1000 start at camp five if you are bringing bigger rafts.

At this level the line through the maze was weaving through on the left and then to the right wall for the run out rapid.

Also Black Rock was an easy run with simply scouting right staying right down the v wave train and then 3 feet off the fin in the middle to the right.

Quartizite was much harder at this level then it looked like at other levels and on U tube. The only move is on the right the left is all rock. There is a very tight squeeze and right after the squeeze a large rock is in the way. We had one boat pinned on this for quite a while before help came to the rescue. A paddle boat with multiple guys to push a 14 foot boat filled with water off the rock. Nothing was lost or broker but the rock is sticky and two other boats also almost got stuck there. At higher water it would have been easier.

Also eye of the needle and quartzite claimed oars on our 15 foot raft and 14 foot cataraft. The problem is our boats were too wide and when we pulled the oars straight in they still stuck out and in Quartzite this broke the oar while flipping the 15 foot raft. And in eye of the needle the same without flipping the boar. Bring your oars all the way forward or in all the way back to avoid this.

After corkscrew the river picks up and it really is easy to make time if you need to get out. There is no scouting just beautiful views.