Bear Left

Bear Left is a slide which slops left to right depositing you into the right back at high speeds (causing a very unceremonious halt to your momentum) if you just ride out the drop. Instead as you move from left to right over the first half of the slide slowly turn your boat to the left so you can bear left at the bottom of the drop. You can see the Potomac from the top of the last drop less than 100 feet down stream. Laurel Run drops 45-50 feet in the last three drops. Despite some undercuts in bad spots, one of the nice things about Laurel run is that almost all of the rocks and ledges point downstream. If even one quarter of the key rocks pointed upstream this would be a solid V run. But with guaranteed wood in places where it makes things dicey this run is IV+ at any level above minimum.