Newfound River

Ran today with Tom Currier at approx. 7.35 ft.  Seemed like a medium-high flow.

My first time on the river, overall it was a fast and exciting run - there were few grabby holes but plenty of sizeable wavetrains.  Some islands to pick a direction around, it was obvious if one was more fluid than the other.  Low and overhanging branches at the start of the run especially. Very few rocks were exposed anywhere on the river, almost all of them were below water level.

I ran the first dam (before crossing under 3A the first time) left center and got caught up on a rock at the bottom - Tom went a bit more river center and didn't hit anything.  The second dam (just after crossing 3A the second time) seemed very spooky to run at this level.  We took out right before it.

There is poison ivy on the bank below the dam where you'd put in after a short portage, fyi if you were to do the bottom section down to Old Nate during leafy months.

Regarding Old Mill,  I thought it was solid 3+ (maybe pushing 4?). Tom said at 6.5 Old Mill has more rocks to get caught up on, but it's much less pushy.  In a lower volume boat I was still scraping and having to avoid rocks more than I'd have thought in the area around the footbridge.