Chiwawa River

We paddled the full Monty, from Huckleberry to Beaver Valley, to scout it out for future Mounties trips. The put in shown on AW is closed and is private land. Right before the end of the dirt road there is a wood blind and a path down to the river. 

Fortuitously, we had the benefit of a trip report from two days earlier and got the beta on wood hazards. There is one riverwide tree about one mile below Huckleberry.  It may be possible to scooch and scrape over the far left, but we opted to portage and not do damage to our boats. The class III rapids start almost immediately and basically never cease. We probably never had more than about 1/10th of a mile in a calm, flat float. 

Below the bridge the action was similar.  Once we merged into the mighty Wenatchee River the entire character changes. Here the river is broad and calm. We  put our feet up and floated some on the Wenatchee.  It also has some good waves in this reach. 

There is a mandatory weir on the Wenatchee you are instructed to portage on river right.  Just downriver from that, there is another Salmon contraption to paddle around.  The take out at Beaver Valley barely was an eddy at this flow, the cement staircase descended 4 or 5 steps into the water, indicating the normal, summer water level much lower for inner-tubers.