Skykomish, N. Fork

The road from Index up the N Fork mentioned in this description was destroyed by storms and flooding two years ago. No signs or reports of it being rebuilt.

Bear Creek Falls gets pretty rough at high flows, and becomes completely unrunable when the river at Index falls below ~700 cfs, due to piton rocks and potholes. Between Goblin Creek and Bear Creek Falls, the river is mostly Class II - III. Between Quartz Creek and Goblin Creek, the river drops down a spectacular gorge in almost constant Class V-VI whitewater, culminating in 90 foot Deer Falls (which can be seen by bushwhacking to the gorge rim at mile marker 18 on FR 63). Below the falls, the gorge extends for another 500 feet, with a few smaller ledges throughout, then ends just upstream from the mouth of Goblin Creek, where the river flows into the wider valley below.

Video footage from the Twitch
series, featuring runs from
Washington and around the world.
Available through the [books & videos link](http://
www.americanwhitewater.org/library/
).

low water
This is the first half of the rapid