Caney Fork

4/2022 - winter flooding the last few years scoured the gorge clean of the big log-jams and scrubby stuff growing in the river, so it's easier than ever to boat-scout your way down. You'll see the big flat stone bench on the right above Devil's Kitchen and be able to boat-scout your way down finding new channels and lines .. as you can see further downstream without brush / log piles blocking the view. This is a great window we have to explore a bit - ran several new channels yesterday that had previously been blocked from view or blocked by logs. At 1.4 on the gage, the ''entrance ramp'' rock center right at Hell's Kitchen was quite an up-hill hump, and there's plenty of water going down in front of it again. Consider a different entrance at lower flows, as it would be hard to access a pin here except from the middle eddy below it. When you get the the creek blow-out / avalanche on river right in the bottom 1/4 of the run.. consider a scout river right as the old ''wing-dip'' boof river left is gone and the hole in the middle is as sticky as ever. The road work on Scott's Gulf take out was substantial - thanks Friends of Scott's Gulf ! - but it is settling a bit now and higher clearance / 4wd or AWD still preferred. We made it in 2wd with a big truck but the puddles are growing and ruts re-forming this Spring. The only wood to report was the far right channel after Polly Branch - and it was river wide but we just snuck under it river left.