Alsea, N. Fork

1. Three Miles below Klickitat Lake to North Fork Bridge

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March 20, 2025

Trip Report

ReporterConor Gorospe
FlowMedium Flow

We put on with a group of four about 2 miles above the traditional put in on accident. We found a quarter mile V section at the immediate put in below a bridge. It consisted of several slides and a ~15ft falls with an awkward reconnect at the base. Following this was a serious of class II with somewhere around 8 portages. Continuing down into the regular section the log mentioned in vanorten in 2017 is now worse, and we all portaged. There were around a dozen more more portages, with several serious log jams further down, but no individual portage was overtly difficult. The III+ rapids above the ledge drop were all comfortably navigable but had wood hazards strewn about. We portaged the ledge mostly out of exhaustion from the portaging, and out of concern that we would have more portages later on, but it was clean. Around 800 cfs.