Owyhee

We paddled this section May 11-14, 2024, then continued through the upper and took out at Three Forks. 1,100ish cfs was a great flow where the flat water moved along quickly and the rapids were padded but not pushy.

Trip Report:

http://mthoodh2o.blogspot.com/2025/05/ef-owyhee.html

Unrunnable sieve at the top during low water, class III runout.

A dewatered (marshy) oxbow is left of this bluff, and the current river course goes to the right.

This entire section is extremely remote and in 2017 shows very little evidence of humans. Walking out is not an option for most of the canyon. An excess of caution and abundance of skill is the bare minimum for entry to this area.

Best channel is far river right, hidden behind large boulders.

at about 1000 on the Crutcher gauge

at about 1000cfs

at about 1,000cfs