rigging the boats south of the highway.   cape horn creek is at the base of those trees in the distance.  lucky for us we have just enough snow and the snow is frozen hard at 8:30 am so the drag across it to cape horn is easy.

gary in the foreground followed by howard and then jerry with the purple ocelot. i think gary's jag is about number nine manufactured by aire.  gary has the video of my 360 at dagger and i promise to make a link if he ever gets me a copy of it ;)

cape horn creek running low and crystal clear.  we didn't start off floating, more like walking and dragging until we got to the highway.

down marsh creek quite a ways.  this log jam is an old one, but i think it has some new protrusions that block the channel.   i do not ever recall having to drag my boat around (or rather in front of) this log jam at this water level before so whatever had changed now made us do just that.  i think this is just up river from the the sluice box where the logs of 2005 and 2003 were, just before you float into the calm waters that lead to the drop into sluice box.

3.5 feet at the middle fork lodge often looks like this on marsh creek.  many exposed boulders, shallow swift water and a  narrow channel. somewhere in this area after the sluice box and before bear valley creek enters is where we had a river left log and bit of a strainer.  the log was protruding into the river on a right hand bend.  the strainer was under the log and the passage around it all on the right was narrow.  higher flows could make the move away from the strainer more difficult.  lower flows would probably be easier because of less force into the strainer even with a narrower channel. anyway none of this is likely to move this year so it will be there next year and until something big happens again.

blake drops over dagger at 3.5 feet.  i am next followed by tom on the yellow jag.  jerry is behind tom still in the rapids of the approach channel.