Whitewater kayaking at its best
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| Pictures just don't do rapids justice. This is an 8 foot drop, with a technical Z turn. The other line that can be run is to keep on the ledge at the bottom of the picture and boof of the end of it. One boater I saw do this came close to falling sideways and hitting his head on the rock you see in the midst of the foaming water. He did come out clean but it is not pretty to thing of the consequences had he missed. On my first trip down the Bottom Moose, one of our group, a NYS trooper said to me while scouting the rapid, "See the hole over there that leads to the cheat route?" Of course I did, it is slightly up stream from where the drop starts, on river left. He continued by telling me that is where they blasted through the rock to divert the water to retrieve the body of the man who died in this rapid more than a decade ago. I think at that point in time, I convinced my self it would be a long long time, if ever before I ran this drop and by passed the "cheat route".. | ||
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