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Rapid WV Class III

Landslide Rapid

Potomac, North Fork of South Branch - 5. Head of Hopeville Canyon to Hopeville · WV

American Whitewater 38.9496, -79.2948

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Gauge Conditions

N F South Branch Potomac River at Cabins, WV Downstream Primary
Runnable: 370.0 – 3,110.0 CFS

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Description

Landslide Rapid - Landslide rapid has a log in the channel below where you enter on river left. Also some rocks have shifted, which make the entrance move of entering left, hitting the micro eddy, and peeling out, more difficult.  This rapid is not the pre 1985 "Landslide" rapid (which was lost due to the appearance of a gravel bar just below it in the 1985 flood), but a rapid formed by a new landslide that occurred a number of years ago, well after the flood.

Location

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Type
Rapid
Difficulty
Class III
Mile Marker
2.5 mi
Directions
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5. Head of Hopeville Canyon to Hopeville
Potomac, North Fork of South Branch
II-III 4.5 mi

Current Conditions

5-Day Forecast

Whitewater data from
American Whitewater