I took drive up to the chehalis just got back... River is in the trees, and running brown... I took some photos of the work they are doing at easter seal, and the diversion project has not yet started... Don't waste your time.
To add to this, I thought i'd take a walk downstream to see where the future path will go, and It's obvious the river will run right into the trees below the hatchery pool, and is almost impenetrable with the deadfall, log jams, etc. It may split off and run half into the bush, and half down the old channel, but it's really hard to say at this point.
I thrashed through the bush for an hour before I came to the conclusion i'm never going down there again; once the water volume slams in there at full force, maybe some of that crap will be blown out, and some new runs will be formed.
The first 100 yards will likely be whitewater. I was literally wading in the middle of the channel under huge hemlocks to get downstream, and there's one stretch of at least 50 downed trees, many of them will be across the new channel when the change happens.
I'll post some easter seal pics in a bit, once Tomas gets them off the camera!
Cheers,
Nicole