American, North Fork
Euchre Bar to Mineral Bar(Giant Gap)
January 5, 2025
| Reporter | Forest Kan |
| Gauge Reading | 1.5 ft at NF AMERICAN R A NORTH FORK DAM CA |
| Flow | Low Runnable |
Cool little January adventure. Looks like we struck a good weather window, making the hike pleasantly cool (35 F). At takeout the Mineral Bar stick was about 1.5, which I believe correlates to 900 cfs in the gap? The preceeding rainstorm didn't bump flows as much as we wanted, but still fun to get out on this little adventure. At this flow, I would agree with A Wet State in that it's mostly IV with a few IV+ rapids sprinkled here and there. Certainly less pushy, but also very much boney in some key rapids.
New piece of wood in the 'warm up' gorge, second drop on river left.
Total about 4.5 hours of paddling. Hike was about 50 min to an hour, putting on around 11:30. We met at 9am at Mineral Bar and fortunately had a shuttle driver to bring the rig back down from put in.