With water levels too high or too low for the many runs we were watching, it appeared that Sideling Hill Creek was going to possibly cooperate. And early in the morning, the gage showed that not only did the level hold, but it went up. So, Lisa Laden in K-1, Frank Fico and friend Dennis Doherty in a Front Royal Canoe Company OC-2 and Gary and Ginny Quam in OC-1s put in at the small conservation parking area off New Germany Rd. (just upstream from I-68). While running shuttle, the crew ran into Court Ogilvie who was setting e-bike shuttle for he and Suzy to paddle their pack rafts. It was a cool and mostly cloudy day and breezy. Mostly we were protected in the gorge. The water, running at 367 cfs when we put on, was cold and pretty murky. We ran into our first river wide strainer above the McFarland Rd./Old Rt. 40 bridge put in and found it easy to carry around. Although we saw much blow down, debris and down trees lining the banks, we had only one more river wide strainer about 5 miles down from our put in, also easy to carry around. Despite the unclear water masking some rocks, we had a fun and fairly lively paddle. The Quams took out at the Stotlemyer/Cliff Rd. campsite about 10 miles downstream where a group was camping and helped us with our boats, while Lisa, Frank and Dennis paddled to the Potomac, not encountering any more strainers. During our lunch stop it was interesting to climb up and see the high-water mark, the line between the ferns and grasses that were muddy and pointing downstream and the ones that were standing fresh and waving in the breeze. The high water had gotten to 10.16 ft. on May 14th, well into the minor flood stage.