St. Joe

After spending most of our day on the North Fork, we decided to hit up Skookum Canyon in the evening as it was close to the area we were planning to camp. We put in slightly below the marked put in and we took out slightly below the marked takeout, it didn't seem to change the run much. We worked our way through the flatwater and soon came to the first and only real sequence of rapids on the run. The rapids themselves were straightforward class III wave trains with a couple decent holes and ledges to boof around the sides. There were two or three rapids that boasted a class III rating before tapering off to class II busywater for the next half mile or so. The creek mentioned at the end of the rapids did invite exploration however we were on the wrong side of the river by the time we had noticed the canyon passing by. After another good stretch of flatwater we passed the standard pullout and finished the run shortly downstream. At the flows we ran we would not consider this run to be much of a class III but it was still a nice adventure.

We stayed at Turner Flat Campground and did this run twice as an evening run on 6/29 at 1250 cfs and a morning run on 7/2 1100 cfs. Flows were great for a class III experience through a mile of whitewater in Skookum Canyon that we enjoyed with our kids. We pulled out at Sisters Creek and hiked up the side canyon a few hundred yards.