Colorado

Ran this on sept 9 through the 12th 2021. River flow was around 3500 for the trip. This flow level is great for duckies and small boats. Great for beginners in almost any craft. This is a class III river at this flow with fun holes everywhere to punch with your big boats. Big drop three has lots of mid channel rocks so stay away from them. If your running a big boat like i do line your boat up just past midline stern side sideways with big mossy and then pivot into the tongue to the right of big mossy. Hold on for a few fun big holes. Kayaks make it look easy until the lateral at the end that rafts are not worried about. Used 4 hp mercury outboard and used only 2.5 gallons of gas keeping it just above idle in order to be able to talk. We average 4.5 mph when motoring. Did hikes to the petrified wood and the pullout there has an amazing rock diving board with deep water underneath. Best on the river. Hiking up over the goosneck is great especially since its faster than motoring and there is a great place at the end of the hike to cliff dive while waiting for the raft. We camped at upper Lathrop Ledges and it was great with the all the boats able to pull alongside rock and tie up to the ledges. the second day camp was at Upper Spanish Bottoms and this was nice and could easily fit a group of 50 and this was easy to access and get in and out of the boat with a nice sandy beach. The third day camp was was hard since we first tried New Face Rockfall and it sucked so we moved on the Fallen Slab. It looked mildly better so we split up our group since it was small even at low water and send the next downstream to camp 187.4 (now almost gone). Actually they never made it there. A mile before the camp was an unnamed spot with a small beach but a huge vegetation free area above the smallish beach that could accommodate a large group. Dont even think about Cove canyon as that was not present even at low water now. Rock Fall was there but small. Dark canyon camp does not exist but if you pull your boat up right onto the stream bed there is little in the way of clay there so this makes the hike up the canyon much better without all that clay.