Sitkum

We ran the entire 9+ miles on 11/27/2004. There was only one wood hazard and that was during the last 4 miles or so, which is class II (barely). There's a tree that spans river wide. At the water level we ran it at, some of the more limber paddlers where able to sneak under the river left side of the tree. However, there was also a very quick portage on river right.

The class V section is really amazing. This is definitely the most accessible class V in that area. It's pretty easy to see when things start to pick up and at the medium-low flows that we ran it at, we had no trouble finding eddies and getting out to scout.

I found that Korb's description of the run was fairly accurate, however, I don't believe anything on that run should be labelled class VI. There was at least one VERY serious undercut and definitely do not underestimate this run, but a SOLID class V boater will not have a problem.