Cispus

5/18/2024 Médium flow at 1860 cfs.  Only encountered wood once above the North Fork confluence as getting towards the end of the run. When you see two big cedar stumps sticking straight up in the river you need to avoid the main channel the goes right just below the stumps as two river wide trees present.  You can either portage on the island or sneak down the small left chute if there is enough water to get down.  Take out shortly afterwards on the right bank where the road parallels the river with a rocky embankment and good parking spot just above North Fork Camp ground.  If you carry on down to the 28 bridge two more wood portages, a lot of incidental wood and braided channels makes the upper take out more appealing.

As of 4/15/07 there were a few wood issues on this run. We portaged one tree across the river in the first mile, which was easily spotted and easy to portage. The 2nd log was another riverwide tree and it poses more of a hazard. It is (very approximately) about 2 miles into the run, the river takes a sharp right turn into a rocky class 3 rapid and there is a tree across the river at the end of the rapid.

The 3rd wood hazard was about 2 or 3 rapids downstream from White Lightning. There is a stout rapid here where the canyon walls close in and the river goes over a couple steep ledges. There is a log balanced across the boulders at the top of the first big ledge that goes about 3/4 of the way across. You may be able to duck under or go around, but we carried around to be on the safe side.