American, North Fork
3. Colfax-Iowa Hill Road to Yankee Jims Road(Chamberlain Falls)
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November 24, 2024
| Reporter | Forest Kan |
| Gauge Reading | 500 cfs at NF AMERICAN R A NORTH FORK DAM CA |
| Flow | Below Recommended |
How low is too low? With an early season atmospheric river pointed towards the north state, a lot of us were playing the speculation game ala CNFRC forecasting. I personally settled on E to P the saturday (main brunt of the flows), and took the sunday on Chambies as a consolation prize. The storm peaked at 1500 on the clementine gauge saturday around 12pm, and quickly dropped out. Our group ran a leisurely lap from 10am to 2pm sunday and had steadily dropping flows.
Turns out this is about the lowest I'd go. Gauge at 0.8 at put in, probably lower. It goes, but it's just really scrapey. Most of our group portaged around the last drop on the left at Bogus.