Stretch: | Milsap Bar to Oroville Dam |
Difficulty: | Class V to V+ |
Distance: | 8.5 to 22.0 miles |
Flows: | 500-1,500 cfs (Most view 1,100 as getting very spicey). Current Dreamflows gauge |
Gradient: | 101 fpm (150 fpm for the hard section of 2.5 miles starting at mile 2.5, max of 195 fpm from Atom Bomb through Four Deaths). |
Put-in: | Milsap Bar Bridge |
Take-out: | Either hike up Bean Creek 4.5 miles into the lake paddle or at Oroville Dam 15 miles across the lake |
Shuttle: | 15.5 miles (55 minutes) or 30.8 miles (65 minutes). Some dirt road |
Season: | Winter and Spring from rain and snow melt |
Written: | © 2013, 2016 |
Featured in Videos A Wet State #70 |