Gauge Conditions
Data from American Whitewater & USGS
Description
Proceeding from the "Lunch Stop", the river makes a sweeping right hand turn with the current pushing to the left. If you move center to right, there is a large easy-to-catch eddy on river right. But on river left, there is a smaller eddy just upstream of where the current washes up against the rocky left bank. The late Rick Tegethoff used this left eddy to train beginning whitewater paddlers to catch tighter eddies just off the main current with harder eddy lines, so this rapid is named for Rick.
Location
Other Rapids on This Run (17)
Rapid
N/A
Barnum Whitewater Area Put-In
Rapid
II
"Woodsmoke" [Boulder Garden 1]
Rapid
II+
"Rocks & Rhododendron" [Boulder Garden 2]
Rapid
II+
"Easy Out" [Boulder Garden 3]
Rapid
II
Lead in to "The Slides" [Boulder Garden 4]
Rapid
II+
"The Slides"
Rapid
II
"Folly Run"
Rapid
II
"Blue Hole"
Rapid
II+
"Lunch Stop"
Rapid
II
"Warnick"
Rapid
III
"Robins Nest"
Rapid
II
"Top of the World"
Rapid
II
"Rock Face"
Rapid
II
"Piney Swamp Run"
Rapid
N/A
First Railroad Bridge
Rapid
II
"Bloomington"
Rapid
N/A
Take-out (upstream of Arch railroad bridge)
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4. Barnum, WV to Bloomington, MD
Potomac, North Branch
II-III
6.2 mi
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
Whitewater data from
American Whitewater
American Whitewater