Major deadfall and snags

By no means the only area of deadfall (there are plenty!), this spot has always been the worst. The river encounters an oxbow bend (right, then left, then right) and has cut through a high-water channel (making an island inside the oxbow). Major deadfall often accumulates at the first bend. As of January, 2013, that high-water channel is now the main flow, and the oxbow will have water only at high flows. 

A LARGE tree/log rests across the flow just far enough downstream in the left channel that you are unlikely to notice it soon enough to avoid it. The right channel has held plenty of wood in the past, and probably continues to do so, since that side will seldom get flushing flows now.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE the power of the current, and do not overestimate your ability to get out of the current in time to avoid a disaster here!