Little Suncook

There is A LOT of wood currently in the river. Large, river-wide strainers every 20ft or so. Without a SIGNIFICANT clean up effort it probably will not be runnable this fall...

included photos that are representative of the narrow section of the run before the dam, but the entire run appears to be in a similar state.

I edited the difficulty for this reach from a solid IV to III+ (IV)
I realize this may be up for debate, so please comment if you disagree with this change.
I believe the previous IV rating applied to the presence of both IV drops on the run. Since only one IV rapid exists on this run, I believe the change now more accurately reflects the true nature of the run.

Ran the Upper Section down to just above the dam 2/27/2010. There was some wood but nothing river wide. With decent paddling skill everything was avoidable and we were able to paddle around everything.

At any level above low a dangerous hydrolic forms at the dam. This boater was fortunate and was washed out the left side after a short while.

As of the high water during the week of Mother's day, the bottom section of this run has been re-routed. The river burst through a levy and and the two really good rapids, a class III and a IV, are now just dry riverbeds. The rains that caused this flooding did do a decent job at clearing strainers on the upper two sections so they ought to be cleaner runs.

There are three distinct sections of this nice, class III+ river with one class IV rapid on the last section.

The upper two sections are described above. I have spent some time clearing strainers out and with a bit of manuevering, you can make a fluid run.

The last section of the river has a nice 3' runnable dam followed by some class II then a nice pool drop class III rapid. Snake around an S-curve and there's a nice, three level class IV rapid. Drop over the first section into bubbly pool with some current on river right. From there, drop into the next level where there's a nice eddy mid river. The last bit can be taken far right or a sneak route on the left has an easy drop. For a challenge, take on the middle section but paddle hard or the hydraulic will grab you.

The take out is a small beach on river left just below this rapid. Carry your boat upstream along the road and put in back where you put in for this section. It's about a 10 minute hike.