Whirpool

At the pull-out at milepost 47 you can scout Whirpool which will give you an idea of the level of difficulty on this run. The Whirpool itself is largely gone. The former channel was all left side and there was not a river right option for decades--it was blocked off by a massive log jam but it did have some water bleeding through. The name Whirlpool came about because of the effect that drop had on the boats. After punching or inside skirting the stout hole at the sharp turn in the river, boats would exit the corner and run into the flow coming through the log jam and get hit with a 90 degree side current at the confluence of the two and get tube suckage and 'whirlpooled'.  When the log jam broke loose in a flood it created the now main channel and the left side 'dried up' and hence no whirlpool exists anymore. Located at USGS River Mile 29.0.