Stillaguamish, S. Fork

On Saturday (5/7/2022) I was gifted with my first trip down the Silly Stilly. This run is straight up awesome, especially at these flows. When rafting outfitters charge customers $100 to raft the Skagit or the Nooksack, I'm appalled that they don't offer trips on this run.

Anyways, we put in at the access point where the river makes a sharp right hand bend and floated down to the station where the gold cart and the giant log sit. Our group consisted of 4 kayakers and 2 packrafts and the entire run took roughly an hour. We loved how continuous and playful this run is, catch on the fly waves through the entire run. Wiley Creek Rapid came up a bit faster than a few of us expected, but we still had plenty of river to warm up on. At 6.9ft I could probably call Wiley Creek a solid class IV with the picket line of huge holes to work through creating quite the stir if you don't nail your line. After this there is tons of fun class II and III rapids all the way to the first bridge, where a solid wave train on the right wraps up the action. Below this there are a few easy class II rapids until the takeout, most of the group exited at the Sandy beach near the campground but I floated a tad further down and scrambled up the bank by the gold cart.

There was no wood near or below the recently engineered log jams that posed any issues.