76 - 10/23/2011 - SF Snoqualmie

A big rainstorm brought the rivers up high very quickly. We had hoped for moderate flows on Saturday on the Middle Middle, but the flow rocketed to over 5000, so we decided to wait until Sunday. The original plan was to run the SF Stilly, but it was higher than we wanted to do, so Lyles and I did a long run on the SF Snoquamie. The long run is from Twin Falls park down to the railroad trestle in North Bend.

The flow was around 500 on the gauge, but the actual flow was a bit higher because the rain was recent and there are a lot of creeks between the gauge and the put-in. The whole run was clean, and even a place where things had gotten really bad with logs was clean enough to run (though we didn't). We spent a bit of time surfing, so it was a long and fun run for a Sunday afternoon.