Priscilla Macy-Cruser was resigned to the possibility of 30 log portages in the first day alone on the North Fork of Silver Creek, a remote, unexplored tributary of the Illinois River in Southern Oregon. Instead, she and her crew found fresh snow, innumerable shadow logs (with enough space for a paddler to pass under), mostly fun read-and-run Class III-IV with a few scouts, a 20-foot waterfall, and a handful of semi-strenuous portages.
Suffer-fest averted, Priscilla looks back and calls the North Fork Silver Creek expedition one of her
