Hood, E. Fork

Nice run today, picnic area to bridge. We're not launching up at the campground. It felt juicy and fast with the calculated East Fork flow on Pat Welch's page dropping toward 1,000 CFS tonight. That calculation is the Tucker flow minus the West Fork flow. I learned about another gauge--a stick gauge on river left, upstream from the next bridge downstream from the takeout (Baseline Road). Today's flow on that gauge was ~12.25. Apparently it's good in the high 11's to low 12's on that gauge.

The wood situation is basically the same as last year, with one portage for us in the last part of the run. We walked where the river breaks to the right of a major log jam--and there's more junk hidden behind it, though some might choose to run that woody junk. We walked it by dragging our boats down the channel that goes left of the log jam. The other wood of note is shortly before the takeout, a river-wide log that can be ducked on the right, at least at today's flow. There are lots of other pieces but nothing sneaky or impossible to avoid.