Cheat, Shavers Fork

11 of us ran this from Beaver Creek (plus 3.5 miles below Cheat Bridge) on the WV Week of Rivers, at 550 cfs on the Cheat Bridge gauge. Beaver Creek to Cheat Bridge is about 11 miles; I understand that access is now closed at Spruce. It is basically a beautiful but class I paddle, with only a few spots that might approach class II. The recommended minimum of 6 feet (300 cfs) seems doable, but it would be a very slow trip and bony at spots. On the other hand, there is no obvious reason to set 8 feet (1000 cfs) as a maximum, as there was nothing dangerous or even blind on the trip, and even a low-water loving, open boater like me would have felt comfortable at a considerably higher level. So I would raise that figure to at least 9.5 feet (2000 cfs).
From the Beaver Creek parking area (where the road ends), most carried 300 yards, over the RR tracks, to Shavers Fork, while several of us scraped down Beaver Creek, after checking the culvert under the tracks.