San Gabriel, East Fork

Record snow this year means plenty of water! Our group of two ran this from Bridge to Nowhere TH down to the road pullout about a half a mile upstream of the reservoir. We were in packrafts and most of it was splashy read and run class 2. I'm guessing we had around 200cfs.

Beware of wood! At least 3 mandatory portages around river-wide strainers. When we arrived morning of 3.8.23 SAR was there pulling a body out as a swimmer had gone into one of the logs. Eddy-hop and scout all the blind corners, not a lot of good eddies at that flow.

Most significat rapid was just above the first time the river goes under a concrete bridge that is the East Fork rd. Small waves and holes leading into a pinch blocked by a head-height log riverwide. Heads up!

If you continue on to the reservoir be warned there is a metal car bridge over the river that you wouldn't want to run, and not a lot of eddies upstream of it. Scout accordingly.

At this flow this run is class 2-3 with class 5 consequences.