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Other Issues A new gauge is being implemeted for Icicle. Here are some comparative values compiled by WA Boater... Here are some numbers from last season over there: Wenatchee @ Peshastin     Icicle USGS     Icicle Realtime      4100          800          4.1-4.2           5300          1050-1100     4.7-4.8           5600          1050-1100     4.8-4.9           6000          1200          5.1-5.0           5600          1200-1100     5           7200          1400          5.55           6400          1400          5.3           6100          1400                     7800          1500          5.7          last years PP race 6900          1500          5.6           7100          1550          5.7           8000          1600          5.9           7200          1600          5.8           8100          1700          6           8000          1700          6           8400          1800                     9800          2100          6.3      Icicle DOE Gauge https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/wrx/wrx/flows/station.asp?sta=45F070#block0

Fun Facts Icicle creek gorge is bigger and badder than the whole rest of the run, scout beforehand if you can.

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My wife and I R-2 from Rock Island to RV (put-in for the Upper section) on 5-29-2012. We portaged 4 times. Two wood portages in the first couple miles, the Gorge Rapid and the Landslide that required the new road to be built. There is a log in the rapid under the bridge at Rock Island campground and I would recommend portaging the landslide on river right. It is preceded by an obvious lake. The stretch below Ida Creek to RV had lots of fun class III. We had a nice medium level and took 2 hours.
DOE gauge: 1700 (https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/wrx/wrx/flows/station.asp?sta=45B070#block2).
WRFCS: 6' (http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/river/station/flowplot/flowplot.cgi?id=ICEW1)

-Jed Hawkes' entry 5.31.12

Icicle creek gorge can sneak up on you, the entrance rapid at the high flows we ran it quickly moves into the main rapid. The entrance takes an abrupt Left hand turn at a big grey headwall. I would recommend stopping and scouting before dropping into this part of the rapid, directly below is a significant rapid that leads into heavy water that feeds into the meat of the drop with a big horizon line. Scout Left. If your going to portage an easy line is down the left, but if your rafting running some of the heavy leading water and catching an eddy on River Right helps cut out some of the work.


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