West Fork Cow Creek between Walker and Slide Creeks

This trip turned out to be a bit of a mistake.  I went out to design more restoration structures on a day right after a pretty good rainstorm.  As a result, the stream was about a foot or two higher than I had hoped.  So even though I only had to cover about two-thirds of a mile of stream, I still ended up spending most of my time fighting through the brush on the edge of the channel which was too deep and swift to even cross.

On the upside, I finally got to see the infamous fish barrier waterfall which amazingly isn't a fish barrier.  Believe it or not, coho, steelhead, and cutthroat all get over this falls which does effectively stop chinook.