I tripped on a log and almost got knocked out by my boat falling on my head. Proceeded to crack my new paddle in half during the same fall. When trail ended we bushwacked downhill for about 45 minutes to the river.

Since I broke my paddle I was using the only breakdown paddle we brought and I was flailing. It was an old worn down lightning with about 50% the blade surface I had been using. Promptly got stuck in a big hole above a sketchy limbo log backed up by a boulder and surfed it for about a minute or two before finally coming free and getting stuffed, temporarily, between the log and the boulder. Very tired.
(Editors Note: This drop is the second picture on the site; Pete is bracing in the hole that Dan mentions.)

One big log jam portage followed the rest of the way by continuous, super techinical class 3+ to 4+/5- boulder gardens. Gradient on the map seemed about 120-150. Super fun, wished I'd had a real paddle so that I wasn't so gripped as I missed eddy after eddy with my breakdown. Aaron ran one double drop after boat scouting and exited into a river left eddy narrowly avoiding the large keeper hole that gabe did not see til too late. Took a thorough thrashing, throwing up a few times to finish it off after swimming and getting recirculated. In the end, gabe had to self rescue and said he finally got out by balling up.
(Editors Note: This drop is also pictured on the site, third photo..)

After retrieving Gabe's paddle from a downstream rootwad we continued with more class 3-4 drops and gardens. Almost everything was boat scoutable and there were no other mandatory log portages though some of the wood demanded some extra attention.

Best exploratory run I've done in a long time. Super pretty wilderness area (salmon-huckleberry wilderness) with great class 4 creeking. We all noted that for a creek of its size its geology was such that it formed some pretty impressive keeper holes. Most similar to wiley creek/blue river though quite a bit better I think.