Shade Creek

Ran the Shade today Nov 2, 2012 @ a little better than 6 ft. You could run it lower but not much without scraping bottom a lot. The right channel around the last island on the lower section has a stream wide strainer. If you paddle hard to river left you can just get behind the root ball and catch an eddy at 6 ft. Some in our group paddled over the tree to the right of the root ball, but I would bet on this as the river drops. Go left or be careful.

This is a video of the lower Section.
http://vimeo.com/22378748

We ran the Shade today (all 3 sections). After a couple of days of good rain the Stony Creek was running at 5.5 ft but the Shade was still a bit bony. A nice run - mostly easy class III boogie water with some nice surfing waves and holes. As noted in the description you need to watch for trees/strainers. There was 1 point where the river was split by an island and the right hand side was completely obstructed by a log laying across the channel. Easy boat scout at this level and so we went left. I would like to run this section again but with more water.

Level from Ferndale Gauge.
Level from Ferndale Gauge.