Chipped Tooth

Chipped Tooth comes very quickly after Nightmare Island, with only a short distance of fast water between them. The river starts off wide then drops through a steep boulder field towards a narrow exit.  The middle is congested but right and left sides are more open.

The right side of Chipped Tooth seems moderately easier than the left [highly subjective, I admit]; at low-moderate flows, it can be eddy-hopped down small right bank eddys up to the steep boulder pour-throughs; at moderate-higher flows, this route still works to paddle through if you can't or don't hit the narrow bank eddys. The left side goes as well at most flows, but the sudden large left-right "reversals" - waves, not holes - towards the bottom can be hard to manage.

BEWARE - the largest drop and the "Chipped Tooth" is formed by a group of large boulders going across the river bed, with very real sieve/trap potential if one were out of the boat or in a bad position at most flows.

In 1999(?) a local paddler and friend in a relatively small boat missed the boof over the middle; he penciled, and found himself pinned flat, still in his boat, at the bottom of the river. He escaped barely, and spent the next day and a half retrieving his boat via high line and hook-and-pole.