Paddling the Green River Gorge

Paddled the Lower Green River Gorge at about 1350cfs.

This is a remarkably wonderful Class III run (at these flows) with the takeout exactly 55 minutes from Belltown.

Reaffirms my belief that climbing out after only running the Upper Green River Gorge was a mistake.

Most of the "good rapids" are in the top half of the run but there are Class II+ / Class III- rapids till after 20 minutes paddle from the takeout which is at the upstream end of the Flaming Geyser State Park. Certainly a bit easier than the Upper Green River Gorge but, I though that this section had more rapids that the "middle middle". However, on the middle middle "House Rock" rapid is a significantly harder rapid that any other either on the middle middle or on the Lower Green River Gorge.

The guys I paddled with (Bill & Ryan) say it's too all the way down to 400 cfs and quite sweet at 600 - 700 cfs and doable till about 3000cfs although that is quite a rare occurrence