White

Two of us packrafted this stretch on Sunday, 9/4. Putin at bridge on 410 in Buckley. Takeout was bridge on Kersey Way. Flow was around 800 cfs.

The flow was good enough that we hardly hit bottom the whole run. It was a perfect mix of rapids and bird/salmon watching for 2 beginners who have never rafted this stretch. Arguably, the funnest rapid, was just before the takeout of the bridge literally like 100 meters from it. The river constricts and the flow is fast with some good waves. Logs on left, but not an issue. Had so much fun, did it a couple times.

The amount of salmon in the river is phenomenal right now. Fish everwhere! Reminds me of movies I see about Alaska rivers. With that, there were also a ton of birds. We must have seen 12 bald eagles. We also saw a bunch of what maybe turkey vultures. Not sure, nonetheless, they were huge and cool to watch.

There was one section about halfway through where we portaged around a log crossing the river. I'm not sure if it was passable or not, but knew it wasn't for us. Other than that there were a couple other areas where logs jammed the majority of the river off, but we managed to pass by without an issue. Everything was identifyable early and there was plenty of time to get out of the water to check them out if need be.