Lemon Creek

Gage reported 7.25ft at the time of the descent.

Rapid has changed to a stout pour over with a nasty recirc. Best line looks to be just left off river center with a boof to the boil pool.

Jason Eason reports from the bridge down the run is wood free!

August 2011, strainers blocking 'Lemon Drop' have been pushed to the side clearing a center run. Good News!

A few changes. RJH no longer manages the lower section of the quarry. The City, (CBJ), has gated and posted no trespassing (mainly to keep ORVs out). Miller Construction is using the upper quarry and the new bridge and quarry above the prison. A private security firm has turned boaters back at the gate when they parked along the river. So far by parking at COSTCO and carrying up, paddlers have had few problems. The road is heavily used by dump trucks and boredom, pressure and methamphetamines, could prove fatal for a boater in the road. Best times to paddle: Before 6am or after 6pm and Sundays.

Blink and you missed construction of this 'private' bridge accessing the new quarry operation on the Lemon Creek Detention Facility side of the river.
A three pronged obstacle wedged hard in the middle of a favorite drop.
The hazard approaches.
Hole at friendly level above hazard. Later in the season TS had 8 rolls in 8 seconds before he washed out upside down.

Nozzle was clear late summer 2006, but the limbo logs below the bridge are hung up just above Lemon Drop, AKA, Smoking Tomb. You'll see the rootballs, but you need a new line past this section. Likely river left, yes left.

Making the crux, missing the eddy.

This is just below the Bridge after the first drop as the creek goes right. Kent Dumas and Ramon Imel experience old school.