I agree. It was my first time on the Cooper, and I thought it could of used a little bit more water. Sometimes a little padding is a good thing. Hopefully this nice weather will bump the flow up a bit for a midweek after work trip.  

Just reviewing the flow info on the AW Cooper page ... and seems like a change is in order.  I recall that this has come up in the past, that is the discrepancy between what people like and what the 'AW page' recommends.   Seems like flows below 1k are gettin low, and flows above 1600 are gettin into the med-high range.  Any thoughts?

Folks are also forgetting a pretty important piece here. Think Icicle.

This year the meltoff occurred very differently than years prior. Icicle was pumping in mid season providing much more than the standard correlation from peshastin. In other words many folks have enjoyed Lower Icicle runs on the weekend of the PP ball with peshastin going at 12-14k ... shoot for a while it was getting playboated constantly. This year it was way way way higher than previous years because that drainage was going off off off. This year with peshastin at 12k it was looking more like other years at 16-17k

Cooper is the same way with the Cle Elum and the inflow into the resevoir... As far as standard inflows sure on a normal year
350-550 = elf
550-800 = low
800-1200 = low medium
1200-1600 = medium
1600-1800 = high
1800-2000 = stompin

This year we went down for the first time in the 1700 range and it was more on par to other years in the 1500 range. Like Megan said it's still a blast!! But you can't just draw a number from the Inflow and know exactly what the cooper is going to be at, it's just a ball park indicator.

my 2cents

....and why can't there be girls in bikinis at every rapid I run?