Lochsa
3 - Wilderness Gateway or Fish Creek to Split Creek(Lower Lochsa)
The lochsa is often frozen over in the winter, but it can also be ice free and runnable. December 2005 was very cold and then a warm spell brought the river up, which broke the ice up and created a series of large ice dams that extended all the way down the clearwater past orofino. I took this photo from the Elk Mountain Trail bridge, on an upstream section where the ice had not broken up.
Kevin Colburn
Dec 24, 2005