Merced

Merced above McCabe Flat

This is where 1/4 mile rapid starts to get busy.

There are a couple of easier class III rapids before you get to the meat of 1/4 mile rapid.

This class III rapid is immediately below Split Rock Rapid

North Fork Falls is 150 yards below the last of 1/4 mile rapid.

This part of the Merced that would be flooded if the dam on Lake McClure is raised.

The last two drops are significantly harder. At our flow it was Class V.

Looking upstream at Split Rock Rapid. Then entrance is not visible in this view. At this flow of 3200 cfs, we ran just to the left of a boulder in the entrance, then down the middle. This was the biggest rapid of our run from Redbud to Railroad Flat at 3200 cfs on the Briceburg gauge.

Flow at Briceburg was about 8,500 so the Red Bud put I would estimate to be over 6,000. The biggest I've ever seen the Merced. Big water, lots of fun, Huge waves and holes.