Clackamas

2. Collawash River to Three Lynx Power Station(Killer Fang Section)

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Pete Giordano

Jun 16, 2025


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Pete Giordano

Dec 21, 2022


River was hit fairly hard by fire in fall 2020. Lots of wood high up and on banks but no wood hazards in the river. Rapids are all the same as usual. A good strategy at the Sieve seems to be to run the far left slot as usual but drive right to exit. This is different than the usual strategy of catching the left eddy at the bottom of the slot and then trying to ferry to the right to exit.

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Jun 18, 2018


Log jam about 200' upriver of Killer Fang. Portage right is your best bet.

LOG JAM IS GONE AS OF 2016

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Feb 28, 2010


Note the river left undercut and the nasty hole that resides there. Get speed and paddle hard to avoid getting stuck.

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Feb 28, 2010


This is the start of this epic rapid. Run river right and prepare to paddle river left fast.

Thomas O'Keefe
Thomas O'Keefe

May 7, 2007


The Collawash joins the Clackamas at the start of
the Killer Fang section.
Put-in on the upstream river left side of the FR 63
Bridge across the Clackamas River.