Well the snow has finally settled down and I had some good boating this weekend. Still can’t get access to a lot of runs so river choices are a little limited. There has been some warm weather this week so when I saw the Washougal at a good high level that seemed to be the best choice. Saturday Jesse and Jason joined me for a run down the NF Washougal. We all thought the NF Washougal would be at a nice juicy level and provide some fun, low stress kayaking.

We were super happy to see that the road to the put-in had been plowed all the way to the top of the hill. Without the plowing, we would be forced to put in at the lower put-in; missing some nice stuff up top. On the way up to the put-in we’d noticed a few other boaters along the road and sure enough, while we were getting ready to hike down to the creek we met some other boaters that were planning to hike through the snow to Hagen Creek. Turned out this was one of about 5-6 different groups up in the Washougal area. Pretty cool seeing everyone out on the river!

Jesse hiking through the snow to the river

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