Birdbath

Get out and scout the next horizon line. The river necks down and drops over yet another bedrock slide. The main flow is along the left shore, but it flows directly into and through a series of strainers. It's possible to sneak around to the right side of the channel in the center of the river and then cut in front of and then behind the strainer. The flow then necks down to ten feet in width and drops over the first part of the slide. The water pushes up against the left wall, forming a pillowed flume that turns back to the center of the river into the pool below. The trick is staying on top of the flume. You can fall off to the right side and get surfed in a recurculating birdbath eddy which happened to one of our group. She was spun around in circles a few times before she aggresively ferried up onto the flume and exited the eddy. The total drop is fifteen to twenty feet.