Need Some Upper Jf Advice

[stream stalker]

I'm considering an upper Jack's Fork trip once all of this weather settles down. I've never floated above Alley before, what I'm wondering is, if it is possible or advisable to put in at Rymers and paddle my kayak up to Jam Up Cave and then float back. That would keep me from having to arrange for a shuttle. Also what about paddling from Bay Creek up towards the Chalk Bluff area? -SS

[ColdWaterFshr]

Sure you could do it, but it would be a lot of work. 3 1/2 miles from Rhymers up to Jam Up. Some fairly fast chutes you'd have to paddle really hard through or just get out and drag through.

[eric1978]

A LOT of work. Good luck with that.

[awhuber]

A LOT of work. Good luck with that.

You got that right...Sometimes it is alot of work going down stream on the JF!

[Al Agnew]

And a lot of it depends upon water levels. If it's flowing more than 200 cfs or so, you will not be able to paddle up hardly any of the riffles, and will have to get out and drag up them. And some of them are narrow chutes that will be pretty deep and powerful, or rock gardens that are not easily walked. And there are a lot of riffles between Rhymers and Jam-up. Bay Creek up is somewhat more doable, because many of the riffles in that area are wider and more gravelly.

[stream stalker]

And a lot of it depends upon water levels. If it's flowing more than 200 cfs or so, you will not be able to paddle up hardly any of the riffles, and will have to get out and drag up them. And some of them are narrow chutes that will be pretty deep and powerful, or rock gardens that are not easily walked. And there are a lot of riffles between Rhymers and Jam-up. Bay Creek up is somewhat more doable, because many of the riffles in that area are wider and more gravelly.

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on this. Al, if 200cfs is the high end of what might be doable, what is the minimum cfs that would be floatable, and which gauge are you refering to, Mountain View? -SS