Sandy

5/24/2020 Ran it today with 2100 on Sandy at Marmot gauge and there was plenty of water, this is a well-padded Class IV flow. We put in a few hundred yards downstream from McNeil Bridge. If you don't know the run, it would be easy to blunder around an innocuous looking left-bend and into a longstanding batch of logs spanning the river about 1/4 mile in. This is an 'island' so you can portage down the shallow right channel or bushwhack nearer the left channel. It may look tempting to duck the logs, but there are ill-placed rocks that are hard to see that have embarrassed a number of paddlers so not recommended. Besides that portage, we had 3 others, but overall it was remarkably clean and very fun. A few weeks ago, a group ran it at 1900 and thought it too scrapy. The level can be affected by where the water hitting the Marmot gauge is coming from. If it's mostly straight off the mountain it will feel higher for the same reading than if the Zigzag and Salmon are contributing more water.