Wind

4. High Bridge to Columbia River(Lower Wind)

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The hot springs resort has purchased the take-out @ the bottom of St. Martin's Hill Road & have closed it to public use.

We need to use the big ramp on the river left side of the Wind @ Columbia confluence:

https://goo.gl/maps/WxwAKgtrdVkt5z4aA

The Washington Department of Ecology recently updated their entire site the new url for the gauge is: https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/ContinuousFlowAndWQ/StationDetails?sta=29C100

We ran High Bridge to Shippard Falls at ~270cfs and found this to be a perfect level for the falls. There were also two class 4 rapids of note between HB and the falls (both clean). The first of the Shippard drops could be run and the rest portaged if desired. If running the second, the third becomes must-run which sucks because the third is also the mankiest (though felt clean at this flow). The weir is safe to run with a straight boof and has weaknesses on the LH and RH sides.