Sweepers

Downstream of the Parking Lot Ledge, increasingly you have to be concerned with overhanging branches from trees and shrubs on shore ('sweepers'). Look well ahead, and plan well-ahead, to avoid becoming entangled in these. It takes considerable skill to keep from being swept into them and from having your paddle wrested from your hands if you are swept through them.

NOTE: The photo above is looking UPSTREAM ... the water is coming toward you, around a LEFT-HAND bend, where you will be swept toward these overhanging branches on the outside (river-right) of the bend in the creek.