Crumbly Dam

After some more smallish boogie water you'll come upon a significant horizon line. This is recognized by the presence of a house on river right with a large deck hanging out over the water. Scout or carry on river left. The drop is the remains of a horseshoe-shaped dam. The initial drop is eight feet, but is complicated due to a lot of large-diameter rebar and debris at the base of the drop. We all probed different lines over the dam with no real consequences other than a few surfs. Below the initial drop is a bedrock slide than runs for thirty feet directly into a ten-foot ledge with a nasty looking hole on the right and a sluice on the left. We all ran the sluice. The rapid then splits into 2 channels; the right was not scouted, but disappeared over a ten-foot wide horizon line. The left was yet another bedrock slide that pushed to the left where there was a nasty hole backed up by a big rock. Landing in the hole would have likely led to a bad broach. The whole rapid drops about thirty feet in the span of fifty yards through very fast water. Next time I'll get out and scout the right side.