Gauge Description:

This gauge is located well downstream of the run and especially in early season a considerable amount of the reported flow can be from side creeks downstream of the crux of Giant Gap. By April-June with drier weather most flow reported will be passing through Giant Gap from high elevation snow melt from slopes behind Squaw Valley and Sugar Bowl. Lower flows are still fun in the harder rapids in Giant Gap but make for a long paddle out at the end of the day. Higher flows make Locomotive falls a more serious proposition and lost equipment in the early walled out gorge sections could be a real disaster.