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Pine View: 3.5 @ 7am & 3.25 @ 5pm

Pine View: 3.5ft @ 3:30pm
Spencer Heights (Sportsman’s): 3.0ft (Medium-High) @ 4:30pm
Big South: 4.5 (Medium-High) @ 4:45pm
Joe Wright: Medium-Low, but still good

Upper Runs @1pm

Joe Wright - Medium
Spencers - 3ft
Big South - 5.5
Long Draw Road - Closed

Pineview @5:30pm - 3.4ft

Joe Wright = Medium level

Pine View: 3.6ft @ 4:30pm
Spencer Heights (Sportsman’s): 3.1ft @ 3:30pm
Joe Wright: Medium
Big South: 6 units (High) on new gauge @ 3pm

Slightly lower flows today:

Pine View: 3.75ft @ 3:30pm
Spencer Heights (Sportsman’s): 3.25ft @ 5:00pm & 6:30pm (Med/High)
Joe Wright: Medium @ 5pm
Big South: 6 units and occasionally lapping on top of the rock on new gauge @ 5pm & 6:30pm

Today was pretty much the exact same flow as yesterday in the canyon:

Pine View: 3.8ft @ 4:45pm & 6pm
Spencer Heights (Sportsman’s): 3.25ft @ 5:45pm & 3.4ft @ 8pm (High)
Joe Wright: Medium/High @ 6pm
Big South: The painted rock gauge was 1 inch under water @ 7:45pm

Good to go!

Pine View: 3.8ft @ 4:45pm
Spencer Heights (Sportsman’s): 3.25ft @ 5:45pm & 3.4ft @ 8pm (High)
Joe Wright: Medium/High @ 6pm
Big South: The painted rock gauge was 1 inch under water @ 7:45pm

Leif E. on Cornholio, first drop in Joe Wright

Evan S. on Cornolio, first drop in Joe Wright

Pine View: 4.2ft @ 7am & 4ft @ 4pm

Pine View: 4ft @ 2:45pm & 3.9ft @ 6:30pm

Spencer Heights (Sportsman’s gauge): 3.4ft @ 3:45pm & 3.6ft (High) @ 6pm

Joe Wright: Medium this afternoon. There is river-wide wood below the main rapis, just above  the Aspen Glen campground; as well as between Aspen Glenn and the Big South.

 Big South: High. The new rock gauge was completely burried under water this afternoon.

There is a pinned Jackson Rocker kayak on the Bridges section of the Poudre. For details and contact info in case it comes loose, please check out this thread on Mountainbuzz

Leif E. in Sportscar Corner, Narrows of the Poudre:

Sorry for the low quality photos… these were taken with an older camera phone

There still is a gray raft wrapped around the right pylon on the bridge above Cardiac. It’s deflated so it’s hard to see but it is there.

We saw no remnants of the raft pinned in Cardiac today, so I’m guessing it’s been retrieved? We did, however, find a couple good waves to surf on the Poudre Park/Bridges section. River’s up and rising as we speak, with predictions well into the 4ft mark over the next couple days. Now’s the time to git some!

Goods can be found on just about every section of the river now; from the lower canyon, to the Narrows,  Rustic, and all the way up to Spencer Heights and Joe Wright. It’s on

Surf’s up in Poudre Park

and at BTO. Happy paddlin!!

Head’s up above Cardiac: There is a wrapped (private) raft on the right side of the bridge just above the rapid. It is grey and mostly deflated, and the raft crew was not able to pull it free.

Upper Canyon Flows on Sunday -
(Updated by Leif Embertson on 6/11/07)

Big South - 6 units on the painted gauge under the bridge in the morning, and above the gauge in the afternoon
Joe Wright - Med-high
Sportsman’s/Spencer Heights - 3.25ft

Pineview: 3.7 @ 2pm; 3.5 @ 7pm
Spencer Heights: 2.9 (Med/High) @ 3pm & 3.25 (High) @ 6pm
Joe Wright: Optimal (Med/High)

Wood Report: There is new river-wide wood on Joe Wright above Aspen Glen campground. This wood comes up quick at higher flows. And there is also another river-wide log below the campround - the same one as last year. Othewise the run was clean yesterday.

Rick Raven on Joe Wright Creek, June 9th

Pineview 3.4ft @ 5:00pm

Sportsman’s/Spencer Heights: 2.75ft @1:30pm

Pineview 3.6ft @ 5:45pm & 8pm

JJ and Leif on the lower section of the Lower Narrows. The winds must have kept the crowds at home. Winds were honkin’ up there tonight!

Pineview: 3.3ft @ 5:45pm and 3.4ft @ 7:45pm

Upper North Fork of the Poudre was at a Low level today. It was a great float trip; very scenic, but bring the fishing rods…

Note: All 4 (or was it 5?) of the barbwire fences were easily navigable.  There are at least 2 log portages in the top section, above the start of the rapids. The flat water paddle out takes a while at this flow.

Hiking down to the put-in for the Upper North Fork of the Poudre

The ‘10-footer’ is more like a 5 footer now. Most of the other rapids on the run are boney. Watch for wood and hope for higher flows.