Elwha

From Tom Diegel

Hiked up from the Madison Falls TH up the road, onto the bypass trail, back to the road, across on the bridge to RL, and up to the old dam site.  Nice view into the gorge, and then there's a small trail that goes for another 3/4 of a mile into the old reservoir bottoms and an obvious spot to walk over to the river's edge.  The rapid at the old dam site is fun and kinda sporty class 4ish.  There's a terrible log jam a ways downriver, but you can scout a nice takeout above it from where the bypass trail comes back to the road.  It's nice swiftwater back to the Madison Falls TH, where you can take out (a quick run) or carry on down into the nice lower section.