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Photo courtesy of American Whitewater

Description

The Birth Canal, This is the opening rapid. There are two lines, the first line, staying left line up to miss the first rock, at that rock turn to the right and bounce down the small drops and make the small opening between the two gateway rocks.
The second line is river right of the island, ducking a tree , hugging left, the water here is hitting a huge rock creating a pillow, staying left over the next couple small drops and making a right turn to go through the gateway. At low flows I like the right line, less scraping. at higher flows the left line seems better.