16th Street Jump (~3')

A quarter-mile past S.20th Street, beyond a roundhouse left bend (to head northerly) lies a very wide roughly 3' jump.

At 145 cfs, the approach (from around the bend above this jump) is totally scrapey, but the jump is clean to launch a 'boof' down the middle.

Above 400-500 cfs, the reversal may be inescapable in your boat.

The river is not that deep (at most reasonable flows), so you may be able to stand up in the backwash, grab your boat, and walk to shore! (Anywhere else on the run, extremely swift current in the uniform cement ditch will make any attempts to stand and walk in the stream very dangerous to nearly impossible!)

The problem is ... when on river, there is virually NO WAY TO GET OUT OF YOUR BOAT TO SCOUT unless flow is low enough that you can 'grunge out' near shore on the approach to this feature! Therefore ...

Before putting on upstream, this feature should be scouted by parking on S.16th Street just south of the bridge over the railroad tracks. Step over the guardrail, carefully make your way down (and back up) a steep heavily-wooded slope to get a view from as near water level as you can. Analyze the reversal / backwash and carefully assess your chances of being able to run this drop and not be stuck in the reversal. That said, by the time you finish shuttle, put in, and arrive here in your boat, conditions will almost certainly have changed!