Nason

Photos of access sites as we wait for flows to come up.

Really nice medium flow with a few easy portgages around log jams. Put in at the Nason ridge road downed bridge on the upstream side. See my gaia track with marked portgages. I also rand this  yesterday the day before at 950 cfs. I took out at the Nason creek camground.  The run is fun and has fairly long continuos class 2 rapids with the upper section 2+/3-. I noticed there are 3 large trees that are 2/3 chewed through by beavers at various locations. When they fall, they will block the whole river. This section is 8.7 miles and it took 2 hrs 8 minutes. 35 feet/mile.

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The entrance to the 'crux' rapid of the Lower Nason. There's some shallow channels on river right indicating this rapid is coming up. We took the far left channel with the most water. There's several large pieces of wood in the rapid itself, one top left, one center/middle of rapid, then there's a river right log jam with a clear left line that's open at the bottom. The most fun rapid on the this section!

Take out just off Cole's Corner on State Route 207. There's roadside parking. There's a riverwide tree that needs to be portaged if you paddle past this point, it's visible from the parking area.

Riverwide tree portage just past the take out.

There's a river wide tree that comes off river right. This is below the crux rapid, there's a cabin on river right signaling it's coming up. You can see the trees coming off river right. At 924 cfs you could bump over the log in your kayak, any lower I would portage on river LEFT.