Midway
through the run it's important to stay on your toes and not drop into
any blind boulder gardens. Poker Falls is not really much of a falls,
but very much a sieve for most the river. There is a thin line on the
right, but a rocky lead-in makes it hard to gain momentum to get to the
right channel. At all but the highest flows there is a quick portage
from the right bank to an island in the middle of the river. From the
island one can still run the fun last move of Poker Falls and avoid the
danger of the sieves. Once below Poker Falls the river is very
continuous, especially at higher flows. Over a foot and a half on the
gauge it's one big rapid down to the waterfall, the highlight of Slate
Creek