St. Joe River Road snow-free to milepost 62

RIVER RUNNING — Terry Miller of the Spokane Canoe & Kayak Club just posted this report on roads and stream conditions for the St. Joe, North Fork St. Joe and  Marble Creek:

The main St. Joe River Road is open to Mile Marker 62. That makes Skookum Canyon good to go but not Tumbledown Rapid.

Note: The mountain goats are hanging out on the cliffs above Skookum Canyon.

You can drive up Marble Creek until you cross the bridge at Mile 7+ —  then snow gets thick. There is little left on the road up to that point. There are two logs in the creek. The usual one where we usually put in and run the left chanel and another one a couple hundred yards down. This one is easy to see and walk on river left. There is no new wood in the creek below “the corner” and has been at a fun level for two weeks.

We also ran the North Fork (St. Joe) Sunday, from “No Sweat” down. Not sure why but they plowed the upper road to the sixth bridge and then stopped? This leaves you 200’ above the entrance to No Sweat. It took about 1/2 hour to get down to the water. Was pretty easy to lower boats in 2 drops. River was free of any new wood and at a fun level. Lower road was snowed in 30 feet after you turned onto it.