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    Posted: 19 May 2015 at 8:30pm
Ive posted this before. But id like some thorough beta on the southern green the trib to the toutle.
aint nobody got time for that!
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  Quote RPMMAX Replybullet Posted: 20 May 2015 at 7:37am
To run the Southern Green you need to study the timber
company's road numbers, then go on there automated
phone line and determine if the roads are open.
This is a good class three run with two drops that are a little harder, which you can portage.
For levels there is a stick gage just upstream from take
at least it used to be. At 6 feet the river is low
and will seem long. Into the sevens are much better
levels. I have paddled over 8 feet a number of times.
Before the road issues we would wait for several days of hard rain and it would be good. I haven't paddled this for years due to closed roads when its running.
You can get a feel for flows from toutle gage.
For the two harder drops one is on the right and the other is middle right going right, but I caution you to
scout for wood both of these drops have had wood at
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  Quote SOPBOATER Replybullet Posted: 21 May 2015 at 1:01pm
Does it run off melt. I always thought this was a rain thing.
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  Quote imageAK Replybullet Posted: 21 May 2015 at 1:18pm
Thanks for the info. Ive been looking at the forest roads. Just waiting for a rain event
aint nobody got time for that!
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  Quote Jed Hawkes Replybullet Posted: 21 May 2015 at 3:21pm
Pretty sure it's just a rain drainage. I know that BIGWATER get's in there from time to time at typical highwater flows for him. I remember him telling me that your best bet for getting on it is during the hunting season in the fall.
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  Quote jalmquist Replybullet Posted: 21 May 2015 at 4:25pm
Good play run if you can catch it... 
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  Quote imageAK Replybullet Posted: 21 May 2015 at 4:32pm
Yeah they like to capitalize on those expensive rec permits during hunting season. And close a ton of the main roads the rest of the year. The whole shore of the west fork of the chehalis is littered with no trespassing signage!
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  Quote Slackkinhard Replybullet Posted: 21 May 2015 at 9:08pm
Why do they care if boaters have access?  Seems so benign.  Maybe I'm the ignorant one...someone school me
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  Quote Jed Hawkes Replybullet Posted: 22 May 2015 at 9:46am
The access is all on private logging land and they only open the gates to the public during hunting season. They are closed the rest of the season because people are filthy animals, they go up on the roads and dump trash, start meth cooking dens, and basically trash the land. That's basically the line I got from the people who manage the land surrounding the Puyallup gorge so I imagine it applies to all privately held logging land.

They make the access passes expensive enough that it's unreasonable to purchase one for just accessing the area a handful of times a year. Basically it's their way of protecting their investment.
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