Entrance Rapid

"Entrance" begins at the bottom of the put-in pool. It has some of the best surfing on the run -- Surf "Hogs" can spend an hour on just this rapid. The rapid starts with a series of two or three surfing waves and eddies in which warm up. Then (at Summer low to moderate levels) at the first part of the rapid, there are three choices:

1. there is a middle curler that splits the current between two hydraulics -- Hit the curler in the middle, then work left to find a tongue to the left of "Bryson's Hole" -- Eddy left (Bryson's Hole Shown in photo)
2. Hit the curler in the middle as in #1, but catch an easy eddy on river right -- From this eddy power ferry to the middle of the river and then line up on the tongue to the left of "Bryson's Hole" as in #1 -- Eddy left;
3. surf the left hydraulic to a left side eddy, 3a) take a nice slide on the far left side to the top of the big left eddy, 3b) peel out and catch the tongue to the left of "Bryson's Hole."

In all cases, catch the big eddy on river left and collect your group. The second part of the rapid starts with another set of surfing waves with lots of eddies and peel outs to do to avoid rocks generally moving center to left on a read and run basis, particularly at the bottom where there is a rock that splits the current. Eddy left at the bottom. At higher water [above 6'] there is no large left eddy to split the rapid -- it's just one long huge wave train down the center left of the rapid. If you find this daunting: stay right at these higher levels.