Kayaking Meadow Creek of the Selway River in Idaho part 1 South Fork of Clearwater level 2,560 cfs

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Kayaked on 6/23 and 6/24/2020. The rapids are shown in order the level on the South Fork of the Clearwater was 2,560 cfs and dropping the Selway was at 9,200 cfs and the lochsa was at 5,160 cfs. I would use the South Fork of the Clearwater as your indicator. I wouldn't want to go if the South Fork was not dropping and my max level on the South Fork of Clearwater would be 3,000 cfs and dropping. This is a 35 mile wilderness run that drops 4,500 feet starting out as a small creek. It turns into a large tributary of the Selway at the confluence. We hiked in off of forest road 1166 near Red River Hot Springs using trail 541. It was a six mile hike with half of the hike being up hill going up the Red River. The second half of the hike was mostly down hill. Fairly good trail with some trees down on the trail. We tried to access Meadow Creek from the Magruder Corridor Road AKA forest service Road 468 but ran into snow. There is suppose to be a faint trail that starts at the Granite Springs Campground that is an easy 1.5 mile mostly flat and down hill trail. Should have called the Red River Ranger district at (208)842-2245 to verify road was open. The shuttle for this run takes 4 to 5 hours in each direction.
There were a couple of portages early on for wood. Most of the run early on is boat scoutable but lots of blind turns with brush blocking your view
At 13:12 is the rapid in the thumbnail
At 13:53 was the first rapid we walked but it also had wood.
At 30:27 there is a creek that signals a bigger ugly rapid that we walked is coming up.
At 31:57 is the rapid we walked.
We hiked in late one evening and camped at putin. We did the first 28 miles of the run in 7 hours the last 7 miles took around 10 hours due to a couple of long portages around 2 unrunnable gorges and another log filled rapid towards the end of day 2.
This video shows most of day 1 which finishes up in part 2 before the first big portage.

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