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Wenatchee area creeking

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Topic: Wenatchee area creeking

Posted By: jerf
Subject: Wenatchee area creeking
Date Posted: 21 May 2012 at 8:59pm

I am coming from Portland headed to the Leavenworth area for Memorial day weekend. Does anyone have recent wood/flow info for the Little Wenatchee or Nason creek? Ingalls creek? Peshastin? Icicle? I know that some of these correlate better than others with the Wenatchee gauge based on how high up the drainage they are and whether the river is rising or falling. Just interested to see whether anyone had been out on these runs this season.

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Posted By: Fry1982
Date Posted: 21 May 2012 at 9:24pm

Yesterday ingals peshastin had decent water(medium ish), lower icicle felt high but good, no wood issues on either...today things were coming up, Nason gorge had a piece of wood by the creek waterfall and was high, money was high and is choked with wood

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Posted By: septimus prime
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 7:13am

I heard on Sunday that, currently, their is a locked gate blocking access to the Little Wenatchee.

Posted By: Fry1982
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 10:13am

Has anyone run Little Wenatch this year? Does it still have the wood issue from last year? ...I mean besides the gate :P

How do you access Icicle above Ida Creek? There was a road washout yesterday at the Ida Creek campground sign...is that the road you normally take?

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Posted By: huckin harms
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 10:23am

Adam, last I looked (from a road scout) Money was not choked with wood. It looked as clean as I've ever seen it... about two weeks ago. Should be a good level now (right now!)

Nobody that I've heard of has been into LilChee yet.

Flow info:

Nason look for 5-6k on Wenatchee @pesh

Little Chee look for 7-9k on " "

Icicle Lower 6k-10k on Chee @pesh (low-high)

Ingalls/Pesh - i don't know... but if Wenatchee @ Pesh is above 10k then your good to go there.

All these flows can be cross referenced with the DOE guages:

https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/wrx/wrx/flows/station.asp?sta=45B070#block2 - https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/wrx/wrx/flows/station.asp?sta=45B070#block2

And it does make a difference if levels are going up or down, depending on weather. That can have an impact on whats going on in the drainages way upstream of the guage at Peshatin on Wenatchee.

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Posted By: Fry1982
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 11:18am

Thanks!

For Money though, that's what we thought late yesterday. We could only see two spots with wood that were pretty far up on the run, almost everything roadside looked good. Everything that wasn't roadside had tons of wood in it. It was a huge tease!

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Posted By: tiziak
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 12:47pm

We were in Nason 3 weeks ago. 6,000cfs on the Wenatchee and it was free of wood. Where exactly was the wood that you noticed?

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Posted By: Fry1982
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 3:07pm

When you hike down from the old bridge (upstream of the existing rail bridge), and the waterfall comes in on river left, there was a large log in there in the middle, it looked avoidable on the left also there were eddies above it, but it was not in an ideal spot at the high flow. Again, the creek looked high(much higher than in the photos on this site) and it was the first time I'd ever looked at it, maybe it isn't in play at regular levels. We thought at regular levels it would probably be something to look out for not knowing the lines however. The entire remainder of the gorge was clean.

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Posted By: cmellon
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 4:47pm

The lower gate (just past 2 Rivers Sand and Gravel) on the Little Wenatchee was locked this weekend and according to the ranger there is still deep snow just a couple miles beyond the gate. It's still probably 10 miles to the put in from there so hiking in isn't an option yet. Once it opens I'll take a look and report road and wood issues but I'm not too optimistic after last year. Hopefully the road hasn't completely collapsed, I'm guessing there isn't a huge budget to repair it.

We hiked maybe 3/4 mile up Ingalls again this weekend and it was relatively clean but a bit low - 2 pieces of wood, both visible from shore and avoidable on the water. It was a little slower paced than last year but more rock bashing which isn't my favorite. A little more water would be good but I imagine it gets cranking real quick.

Posted By: brianmaier
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 6:56pm

The Entiat is worthy and ultra clean last year

Posted By: huckin harms
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 8:37pm

Thanks for sharing the wood reports Adam... I wasn't aware of the changes in Money and your the first I've heard of getting on that run this year. More work for wood beavers.

Hopefully the Little Chee gate is gets opened soon. Next weekend might be a good time to check things out.

Yeah, I'd really like to rally back up to the Entiat sometime this Spring. It's a haul but that 1m canyon stretch is a real gem. I did that right around 1k a couple yrs ago and that seemed like a good medium.

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Posted By: Fry1982
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 10:26pm

It's funny, I talked to my buddy here who ran Money last year and he couldn't believe it had wood issues...whereas I have trouble picturing it clean!

..and yeah Ingalls did seem a bit low this last weekend, but still higher than the only other time I'd ran it I think..how high have people hiked up it in the past?

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