Winhall River

Me and three pals ran this on 4/28/07. We came up from NYC and NJ to run the West. After doing so we decided to run the Winhall. All the other creeks in the area looked to low and although the Winhall was low it was very runable, no real scraping and had surfable waves. We put-in at above said sugested put-in. We were going to use the Mobil gas station (with permision) as a take-out but instead used a dirt road that parrelled the Winhall and took out before Londonderrry rapids since we were short on time. At this low level we did not find any rapids too hard for someone used to CL3. We also did not enounter any real strainers (there were a few but close to the banks and easy to avoid). The rapids were fairly continuous, a mix of class 2 and class three. Often, the the CL2 rapids were my 'break' between CL3 rapids. No long flat sections. Where it was flat it was short and the current kept us moving. 'boogie water'.
All four of us liked it better than the West. No long portage down the dam, no crowd, easy shuttle and non-stop fun. If I ever come back for the West release, it's my intention to get back on this. We were going to do it again Sunday but my friend checked it out and said it looked too low.
About the dirt road: it's a good thing I had tow-rope. I parked along the side, waiting for my friends and all of the sudden the passanger side of the mini-van dropped about a foot into the mud (understand I was not moving). I would have otherwise been stuck.