Salmon, Middle Fork
2 - Boundary Creek (Dagger Falls) to Salmon River (Cache Bar)(Middle Fork Salmon)
July 10, 2018
Middle Fork Salmon Trip
| Reporter | Thomas O'Keefe |
| Gauge Reading | 1400 cfs at MF SALMON RIVER AT MF LODGE NR YELLOW PINE ID |
| Flow | Low Flow |
We enjoy a 6-night 7-day trip on the the Middle Fork Salmon. Our rig day was July 9th and we launched the morning of July 10th. Flow was 1400 cfs at Middle Fork Lodge at the start of the trip slowly dropping to 1250 cfs by the end of the trip with slight diurnal fluctuation (corresponding to about 2.4 to 2.3 on the staff gage). We had fully-loaded rafts from the top and got stuck a few times but made it down.
Our camps were as follows:
7/9 Boundary Launch, mile 0
7/10 Big Bend, mile 6.7 (7 mile day)
7/11 Pungo Creek, mile 28.0 (21 mile day)
7/12 Cow Creek [hiked to Loon Creek Hot Spring], mile 50.3 (22 mile day)
7/13 Camas Creek, mile 60.0 (10 mile day)
7/14 Fly, mile 75.0 (15 mile day)
7/15 Solitude, mile 92.2 (17 mile day)
7/16 take-out and drive home, mile 98.3 (6 mile day)