Calawah, S. Fork

Fantastic packraft run!

We hiked in from the Sitkum bridge closure. Ended up being just shy of 7 miles and about 1000 feet of up and down. Trail was in good shape. There were about a dozen blow downs of varying size. A few of which were mildly annoying to get around. Some really impressive old growth trees.

The river was fun! Rapids were clean. We only had to get out of our boat once to step over a small log. There were a couple massive 8' logs blocking the river that we were able to duck under. With more water you'd probably have to climb up the bank around them. Didn't look like a hard portage.

Flow was 2300' and felt low. We bumped a couple dozen rocks down the river, but never had to walk our boats. It took us about 3 hours to paddle the 8 miles down to the Hyas Creek takeout.