Sol Duc

We had nine boaters on this run: Dave Pearton, Jan Tackett, Omar Jepperson, John Ross, Russ, Jen O'Neal, Jay and Aaron from CA, and Thomas O'Keefe. After spending half a day searching for the elusive put-in for the Sitkum (the 29 road was closed from the downstream direction and we were attempting to access from the headwaters) we took advantage of what available day light we still had for a quick run on the Upper Sol Duc. We put in at Salmon Cascade and took out at the forest road bridge downstream. The river was at a good level and was mostly continuous class III+ with one drop near the end that pushed class IV-. The river is quite open with fewer woody debris hazards than many of the other runs on the peninsula.

The flow as 3.3' on the upper Sol Duc staff gage corresponding to approximately 950 cfs. Rivers were coming off a peak on the 24th when the Queets was up to 35k and the Hoh was up to 9k. On the 26th the Queets was at 10k and the Hoh was at 5k, while the Quinault was still near its peak of 7.3k.