Sandy

There is a tree coming off the bank and covering the whole left channel at River mile 5.5. You can avoid this by taking the center channel instead.

The log in Cat Trap is gone.  There is a tree down in the runout of the Powerline wave, easily avoidable but would affect that surf spot when it is in at high flows.  The rest of the run was clean.

FYI there is a tree down across the entire channel at mile 3.8 from revenue bridge. There wasn't enough room or desire to chance it on our crew. Portage River left, eddies on both sides at our flow. Image shows landmark hillside to look for, they were taken from the portage looking up stream. Have fun and be safe.

Rafted this 5/30/22 at 4500 cfs. Fun section, lots of water and nice big waves. Came out of the gorge section, so this seemed pretty tame in comparison.

Ran Revenue to Dodge yesterday (1600cfs - fun!) and encountered the cave/pillow combo mentioned in the March comment below. It's the second III mentioned in the description. I tried to skirt the left side through the boulders and ended up facing a wall o' rocks and had to pivot to the right straight towards the wall anyway - safest bet at this level seems to be straight down the clear line but be mindful of staying left.

Posting for a friend who ran this a few days ago:

Sandy River Revenue to Dodge Park
Re: Unknown named rapid I have formerly referred to as “Rt wall curler” I will now refer to “Rt wall cave and pillow rapid”. It’s located in the immediate proximity of the end of SE Marsh Rd. And it’s after the class 2-3 rapid that is at the start of the houses on river right.
The clay wall has been undercut more and the indent on river right wall is now more like a cave. The curler is now a pillow and a little retentive to an inverted boater. Immediately following the pillow it appears as the soft clay wall is undercut. At 1,100 CFS (Marmont gauge) the surface water hitting the wall and creating the pillow deflects at 80°-90°, my concern is a swimmer upstream could be pinned against the wall or flushed under portions of the wall immediately downstream.
The lead in to this rapid at this flow is rocky and could easily disrupt a newer paddler. From near the top of the lead in (I started river right) as soon as I saw the increased size of the cave i immediately paddled hard to get left and still got pushed up onto the pillow. The next paddler remained along the right nearly brushing the rocky outcropping on the right just above the cave. He passed the cave, rode up on the pillow and flipped upstream. He was momentarily held inverted in the depression upstream of the pillow, and despite bracing and rolling efforts flushed out swimming. Wouldn’t necessarily call this a close call, but rather a heads up to everyone that this rapid has changed and brings an increasing risk to be mindful of as I have heard this has traditionally been considered a beginner to intermediate skill building run.

Dodge to Oxbow at 2250 today was absolutely delightful. Gorgeous scenery, fun clean moves, and great surfing waves...perfect to take our noobs on and enjoyable for more advanced paddlers too. And it really is beautiful out there.

Revenue to Dodge is more fun than I expected at 1225cfs. Definitely not a beginner run for kayakers at this flow, especially those last couple of rapids before Dodge. Starting at Dodge with careful scouting of Pipeline rapid is a better option for beginner kayakers.

Great stretch for beginners. Ran from Bull Run confluence to Oxbow Park at 4300 or so and found lots of flat water, many good play waves (catch on the fly) and a few holes to avoid. Pipeline is definitely harder than the rest of the rapids.

full tree down across width of river - total obstruction. easy to take boat out and return to water on other side.

Tree down in water at left side of second island below revenue bridge(about 2 mi.). Easy protage alailible on right.

River access at Oxbow Park.