Cherry

Caution Large Strainer as of 5/14/24

A few hundred yards after you go under the bridge at Holcomb (route 20 bridge about 1 mile upstream of Rhododenron Park) there is a large tree down spanning from the bank of river left nearly the entire way across the river. After you go under Holcomb/route 20 bridge you will see a small set of class II rapids and a tall section of erroded bank on river left with a right hand turn in the river. This strainer is immediately after. Again this is a very large tree, originating from river left and spanning 90% or more of the river width, at higher/faster flows it may not be immediately visible as it is somewhat hidden around the river bend. When you see the erroded bank, keep close to the shore on river right as it may be passable at higher flows on river right.

*Side note, went out as river was dropping ran at approximately 11.4 ft on gauley gauge, thinking we could pull it off as it was just under 'runnable' level. Lots of carrying/dragging the boat at this level but we were able to succesfully cover approx 5.5 miles of river at this level in about 4 hours.