Potomac, North Fork of South Branch

On 21April2019, we ran this section. At the time of put-in, the Cabins gauge read 7.4 FT or about ~3000 cfs. It had rained hard the night before and the gauge was slowly dropping from a peak of 8 FT. The flow level was about perfect -- plenty of water to pad rapids but not so much to make the waves too large. We paddled a tandem, open canoe with float bags in the stern and bow but otherwise open. We nearly swamped twice from waves washing into the boat. In the tandem open canoe, we're intermediates and we found the rapids fun but challenging. About half-way through the run, we encountered a set of double metal wires across the river. We couldn't eddy out in time in the class I-II water and we were forced to drive under the wires. We just barely passed, lying flat on our gunwales. A second single wire was encountered later and was more easily duckable.