Little (New R. trib)

A long rope can help guide your boat around the left side of the falls. One person in my party had a shorter rope. Their boat anchored at the end of the rope and filled with water. Another person in my party successfully ran the center of the falls in a Dagger Legend 15.

This is a beautiful stretch of whitewater. My OT Guide 119 was hard to maneuver since it was a 1/3 full of water after the falls!

Ran this on 10/27/07. Graysontown gauge was 1200 cfs in AM, thought there would be plenty of water. Dropped fast, and we were able to get by well enough, but I wouldn't want to boat it any lower. Next time I paddle this, I am going to ask a landowner for permissiom to launch, and shave off miles of flatwater. It might move quicker at high water, but at lower flows it's not much fun. Very pretty scenery. Saw deer swimming across, great blue herons, and red-tail hawks. If there was a public access about halfway through, this would be a really cool trip.

Looking upstream at Shoulder Snapper.
Taken from a scouting rock for this drop. The double-knuckled pourover rock left of center has a nice 2' foot boof at whatever this level was.

Bear Falls @ 700cfs on Graysontown gauge, which is many, many miles downstream.

Looking back up at river left ledges across from Shoulder Snapper. Didn't realize this was the Snapper until I looked over on the right. The river gets divided by a large island, and the right side upstream didn't look like we could get through there on this day.