Railroad Trestle

Take out river right when you hear the next drop. The river accelerates down through offset waves, gets squeezed and twisted to the left past an old bridge trestle, then jumps through a couple waves into a brief hanging pool. The main current pushes straight through the pool toward the brink of the second pitch of this drop. (Boaters usually opt to catch an eddy in this pool before picking their line down the next section.) Flowing out of this pool is a wide jumbled rocky slide. A series of ill-placed rock lies right in the main current at the lip of the drop, leaving fairly narrow gaps to thread before spilling down the frothing slide. Watch out for the 'trip rocks' which will try to spill you if you get sideways down this slide. The best line is usually by threading between a couple 'guard-rocks' well to the right, and keeping a straight boat angle to avoid being tripped up by jutting rock on the slide. As the waters (from across the width of the slide) collect, the river flows through additional series of waves, holes, and diagonal ledges.