Clear Creek

April 2019 update. While this run in recent years has typically required at most 2 wood portages, it is currently in bad shape. We did nearly a dozen portages, some quite difficult up/down steep terrain and through thick blackberry. We judged another dozen logs or so to be safe enough to boof/slide over, but these likely would have been additional portages at more typical (lower) flows. The creek was extra high. We normally run this when the 3 Lynx gauge on the Clackamas is at least 4 or 5K cfs and other runs like nearby Eagle Creek are looking too high. The gauge peaked well over 10K this particular day. Nearly all of our logjams were in slower water, but beware the steeper mid-run section at these higher flows. The fast water here is not forgiving as you come around the right hand bend into the class 3+ ledge drops.