San Joaquin
4. Patterson Bend (Kerckhoff Reservoir to Kerchoff #1 PH)


This is looking upstream from the bottom of a portage. I think it is the 3rd class 5 rapid. Fifty cfs just goes underneath the boulders, so we carried over the tops. This was the least awkward of these three portages, by a small margin.
Paul Martzen
n/a
3rd 5