Beginners should stay off this river at high flows, when current goes into and thru riverside trees, making rescue difficult and swimming dangerous. At such times, there are many other good river choices. Rig your boats in the shade and carry them across the sandy beach to the cold river. Wide and shallow boulder bar. Looking down at the varied rockbed sometimes makes you feel like you are flying.
Goalpost move between two wrap rocks, after a long chute beside some willow trees.
The river funnels into a narrow chute with swift current and big waves at the bottom. Good surfing waves below. Some people take out right below to simplify their multi-run shuttles. Almost immediately the river turns right and flows past an old concrete bridge piling, which creates lots of turbulence that is easily avoidable, although you may not think so initially, on the right. Swift water in a narrow channel continues to the bridge.