Wenatchee

Ran 6-18-11. 9.5 grand = great clean fun, I've never ran a river so full of nice haystacks & fluffy holes while not being surrounded by such a minimal amount of clear & present danger (Obviously LOG JAMS & strainers can creep up on you while running this FAST FLOWING river)... pour-overs & big rocks sticking out = rare; & to me it's like paddling thru heaven, but everybdy from around here says the scenery on th Wenatchee pales in comparison to other local rivers. ..... .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------..... ....... ......... *** The bridge pillars are no joke, *** will pin raft *** run in between them & just stay clean around / through the pillars, there is some deceptive spots around them, but nothing u should regret missing. *** ..................... -‎you want to MISS 'SATAN'S EYEBALL' (upper-middle of 'Rock-n-Roll') by taking the clean-channel river-left (& the clean-line imo is hitting the wave train & hole at the bottom of 'Rock-n-Roll'). *** Satan's Eyball *** looked slightly different my 2nd time through; for some reason it looked like I had more room to dodge it at 9.5k, but it also looked like a bigger & more consistent hole than what I saw at 8.5. ... . .*** It is easy to walk Dryden Dam *** ***........... . I followed somebody and ran the dam. There is a little ledge drop that I ran going around the dam, but just * KNOW WHERE IT IS AT. * I fear describing this without a picture, so do not just go on this statement: If someone convinces you to just paddle around the dam: [ To the best of my recollection ] There is a little tiny wave train that comes in towards this thing that I remember as looking like a chunk of concrete. Use this as a guide. Go to the left of 'the chunk' of concrete or whatever, but do not get too far from the little wave train, you can ride the edge of the wave-train in (river-left side of the little wave train) To the best of my recollection The ledge drop sits at an angle. Don't get sucked too far left. * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snowblind is unavoidable & you have to constantly adjust to haystack wave after haystack wave. * Snowblind * is a madhouse of haystack & squirly haystack waves Everywhere... & its a little bigger than what it looks like on th aw pics. Don't let somebody flush-drown on this rapid. ... At lower levels my guess is that it can be rather rocky down there, & slam! With the rock there I'd just go right at Drunkards. My common sense told me to hit a hole or two in Grannies. Granny's will require you to read & run & choose which hit to take. Takeout is soon after, so think about that. ... Have fun!