This is the beta from the old Fraser Whitewater Website, at the time you had to walk in at least 45 minutes to do this run but as of 2024 the road is in good shape again but I haven't driven to the put-in yet. If you paddle this please get in touch to add additional information.
Look for flows over 1.3m and below 1.8m on the Chilliwack River Above Slesse Creek gauge. Also visual rock gauge at take out.
Gauge: Look for the Chilliwack to be around 1.5 meters on the “Chilliwack River above Slesse Creek” gauge at the environment Canada site. That should give you a rough idea of when it will be going. Once you’re at the creek there is a large flat table rock just upstream of the lowest bridge. No water over the rock is to low, water just covering the entire rock is a medium-low, if you can’t see the rock or it is making a hole then it’s high. The lower run can handle more water than the upper.
You may be able to drive to the put-in again now, which may have been at the 2nd bridge you will come to driving up....You will come to the second bridge (on the run) over some class 5+ woody mank. The old take out was just up stream of this shortly after the steep hill.
There is a solid class 5 piece that is optional near the end of this run a short ways upstream of the 2nd bridge. Scout the last eddy carefully if you decide to run this lower piece as missing the eddy would send you into the class 6 log choked boulder mess under the bridge.
Notes: This run is incredible and beautiful. On a sunny summer day with the crystal clear water and lush surroundings it’s easy to forget you’re in the Chilliwack River Valley, it’s totally different from everything else in the valley.
Some years this run is full of wood, and other years it only has. . . a lot of wood.