"Fall Line"

"Fall Line" - (Mile 2.54) - Starting from the large staging eddy on river right (see photograph),  the basic run is to enter on a center tongue and keep moving left.  Avoid a tendency for the river to push your boat to the right, because if you try to float the rocks to the right, you'll find yourself swimming.  Which is not to say that you can't work the eddies on the right, they just have to be worked, not floated.  There are tons of little play waves and holes on the way down this rapid, and eddies and micro eddies both right and left, but the basic line is to keep moving left. About halfway down there is a big eddy on river left where you can stop.  From there, just peel out, missing the rock on the left and run the rest of the rapid in the center or a little left of center catching an eddy at the bottom.  At higher levels, there is a really fun slot move on river left from the big eddy mentioned above. Directly at the bottom of the slot move, there is a really good surfing wave. 

Just below "Fall Line" there is a small beach on river left and, a little farther down, a relatively gentle surfing wave on river left which is good for beginning surfers to use to learn to surf.

(This rapid gave the river its name:   "Gunpowder Falls", or just "The Falls".  But to avoid confusion, since this is the same name as the river and the run, paddlers use the name "Fall Line" for this rapid.)