Let in at Black Brook Dam
River hazard: down trees
Trees blocked primary channel, fortunately a large set of tubers were going to the left and made some calls to go left. I'm glad, because the primary channel was unpassable.
Let in: Little Falls
Pike Hole Rapids
Some people ahead said not too worry, not anything to worry about, but I saw 3 huge dips, walls of water, and though I made the first two, flipped on the third and was dragging for a while. Some scars on my right thigh, lost sunglasses, but could have been worse. Next time might try portaging on the left, where I saw the tubers climbing in. It was kind of sudden and not like the rest of the river up until that point nor after.
- This article says: "You can exit the river before the Pike Hole rapids on the left side of the river after passing a rock cliff about 20 feet high."
- Old article about the falls
- bridge view
- cliff view
- American whitewater article rates it a Class II+ But I feel that part was a III.
- Facebook photos (other)
- 45.274778, -92.428201
River hazard - trees blocking
I made a cursory scan and it seemed like the tree angle at the far right was passable. I made it but lost my Sony camera in the brush, it fell off, but as I made it under the tree, I could not relocate it. Can't tell if it floated or fell - never tested its bouyancy before this incident. Sad because it might have had some good shots of the rapids.
Interesting flow
At one point you can go full left or right, the current actually led me first to the northern channel, but I was able to steer back to the primary channel.
Let out at 150th St.
Let out at Random
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