Bear Creek

My buddy and I ran this section at 560 cfs in a Sabertooth (12' raft) and it was pretty awesome for a quick run, but definitley a timing game to hit the flow window.  The gorge section between the road bridges was especially fun with really cool rapids.We got done with the full run, including a couple scouts plus lunch break in about 2.5 hours.

For flows in rafts, definitely thought this was on the low side, but pretty ideal for ease. Something a little higher like 600-900 cfs on the gauge at put in might be perfect for rafts.

Once you get past the second bridge (where the High Bridge Trail parking is) the very next left turn has a nasty eroded rock seam in the middle of the river.  If there was a little more water, we probably could have easily gone far left or far right, but wiht those flows we couldn't easily get to either.  The middle had some vertical undercut rocks seams probably from the recent storms.  We pushed hard to river left to intentionally to get hung up on the shallow rock to avoid these seams and to scout. Thereafter we worked our way down the small left side drops  before a final ledge leading back into the main current. See pics below.  Please be aware that this seam looked perfect size for sticking a tube of a raft or a full kayak and I would strongly recommend avoiding.  We did not expect this rapid as there is really no mention of it and cant see it from road scout.

There is another pretty stompy surprise hole in a river wide horizon line about 0.5-1 mile further downstream that you dont really see from the road either.  Left side is a steep drop into a stompy hole but with more water you can probably run center ski jump/boof line or even far right boof line as well.

We Put-In just upstream of the top Bridge (~ a mile downstream of Cowboy Camp).  We took out at Cache Creek River Access which is the next take out after the confluence of Cache Creek.

PS: Cache was cranking at 5,500 CFS and had some solid waves in it if you have more time to paddle further downstream adn enjoy the wave-trains.