Muddy Creek (Susquehanna trib)

There's a brand new river wide strainer on the Muddy after Screaming Left rapid and the next small rapid with the boof rock but before the last two rapids on the river. Portage is difficult in the area. We were able to open a small channel through the branches on river right but getting into the channel and negotiating through the branches is difficult.

There's a large tree that has fallen into Double Drop (first set of rapids) from river right and gone across the entire creek. You can navigate under it by running far river right then under the trunk of the tree after the second small drop, cutting over to the left to exit. Watch out for the broken branches when you head under the trunk of the tree, they may snag loose gear.

As of May 17,2008:There is a river wide strainer right below the little gorge that's before the waterfalls on river left above the last rapid. This is now gone, but there are still trees down but i do not see them causing any big problem until high water pushes them down

As the previous person mentioned, as of my last run, May 4th, the log has been disloged from its original location, but was under water right below the first drop river left, but is not as much of a hazard.Bob Swain, Wilmington Trail Club. www.wilmingtontrailclub.org bswain@psre.com