South (Shenandoah tributary)

We canoed the Crimora to Harriston section this past saturday. The gauge was at 2.1, so quite a bit lower than recommended, but we just wanted to get out. We tried to find the put-in in Dooms mentioned in the other comment, we found the pull off, but we couldn't figure out how to get the boat to the river without dragging it over someone's fence and field (anybody know about landowner relations here?). We opted to just put in at the park in Crimora and take out at the pull off in Harriston.

Much of the river was nice and deep enough to paddle. We saw numerous Belted Kingfishers and an Osprey. We weren't fishing, but we saw many large fish. We were the only boat, but there were several people fishing from the bank (hopefully they weren't planning on eating what they caught).

Some portions we had to get out and push due to low water and others we had to push due to trees across the river. Would it be a faux paus to float this section with a small camp saw and remove some branches to make the river more navigable? Several of the ripples/rapids looked like they'd be a lot of fun with one more foot of water in the river.