It's 12.5 miles to the river. Two campgrounds along the Blue River. Bait, cackle and supplies in Alpine. As with running any small desert stream you've got to be flexible enough to catch this river when it's up. That usually happens during the best part of the snow melt which may vary by more than a and frequently makes the river boatable for only a few days.
Some years have no season at all.
Rare summer opportunities to run this river after monsoon thunderstorms come about only once in a blue moon. Rapids here are not big or technical. Undercut rocks loom along the big sweeping curves this stream has cut at the base of the high cliffs that border it. And you'll have to keep an eye out for man-made hazards such as fences and pieces of old farm machinery that have found their way into the streambed. Log jams and strainers present a more serious hazard at very high water.