 It meets The Dalles city waterworks gauging station and its diversionary aqueduct intake at 4260 ft (1300 m) then turns NW to Cooks Meadow then turns directly westward.There are several half mile long zigzags north and west before turning straight northward again through steep mountainous forest.It meets the East Fork Hood River at Highway 35 where it also meets Puppy Creek at elevation 2120 (), which is less than a mile upstream from Cat Creek.