Salmon, North Fork - Gallia Mine River Access to Forks of Salmon (CA)
The NF Canyon can be run below 3200 cfs on the Somes Bar gauge but becomes increasingly technical and rocky. Above 5500 cfs, the run gets pushier but pads out
Enter middle, move left, and follow the current banking off the river left rock toward the center as the rapid drops into a sometimes sticky, but generally friendly, hole. There's also a line down the middle.
There's a great upriver view from the river left eddy at the bottom. Rapids continue, but the river eases its gradient and pace below this drop for the next three miles until the entrance to Indian Point Gorge (V).
Rapid
IV
Rapid
III
Rapid
III+
Rapid
III
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IV-
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III+