The Holes contains two large hydraulics after a big drop. The Right Turn is a long rock slalom at a right bend. The S Turn offers a route all the way to the left and back again. Although you are still technically in Five Mile Rapids, it no longer seems like it. Class II and III rapids alternate with moving water for the remainder of the trip, and there does not seem to be any definitive end to the 5 miles.
Cedar trees give way to cottonwood and hackberry trees.
A long class III rapid starts innocuously as the river splits around a low island. Excellent campsite on the right bank just below the rapid, the last good camp before cattle country. Scouting and running the right entrance 68 A canyon enters on the left. Over the next half mile, several hot springs trickle from rock cliffs into the river. Partway down there is a grotto with bathtub, marked by an eroded embankment where you can park your boats on a tiny island.