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Eddying Out

Sauk River Update The word from the Darrington District is good in terms of the bridge over the Whitechuck Rive r leading to the Sauk River 's old put-in. No longer will have to risk life and limb parking along the Mountain Loop highway to stage river trips on the Sauk . I have no idea if the put-in has been restored as well, but, at the least, we will be able to hump the boats over the streamside boulders just downstream of the Whitechuck to access the Sauk. Hopefully, the Darrington Ranger District has plans to replace the porta-pottis as well. Now we need for the Sauk River to regain its old disposition and nature of technical, boulder-strewn rapids with fun sets of challenging waves and hydraulics --- AND --- be navigable below 3,000 cfs at the Sauk, near Sauk, river gauge. Then, and only then, will the Sauk be back to 'normal'. Creature Craft I am not going to link to these latest and greatest water craft because I don't think they need any additional promotio...