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Rapid ID Class IV+

Ladle

Selway - 1 - Paradise to Selway Falls (ID)

Monitor this Rapid

Gauge Conditions

Selway River near Lowell ID Downstream Primary

Runnable: 700.0 – 35,000.0 CFS

Very rough estimate of high water division

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Photo

Photo courtesy of American Whitewater

Description

Ladle is a complex boulder garden rapid that should be scouted from the trail on the right. At lower flows this one is a real maze through the boulders and at higher flows it becomes one big frothing stretch of whitewater.