Lyre

A group of six of us set out to run this river over Thanksgiving 2005. We should have listened to the local fisherman we met before putting on who suggested we'd find the Elwha to be a better kayak run. The portages began from the moment we put on and we were never able to run more than a couple hundred yards without hauling over one of the approximately 3 dozen log jams we encountered. There were several additional places where we made sketchy moves over, under, and around wood hazards. There were a couple good rapids but overall the whitewater was not that great and overshadowed by the time spent hiking along the banks.