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Rapid WI Class II

Lower Snaketail Rapids

American Whitewater 45.8898, -88.4959

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Gauge Conditions

Pine River below Pine River Powerplant near Florence, WI Downstream Primary

Runnable: 2.0 – 10.0 FT

Likely good boatable flows.

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Description

At 240 feet, this is the shortest of the 3 class-2 Snaketail Rapids. It has no portage. It is a pushy, S-shaped run with rock bumpers to avoid. At lower flows pushiness decreases and this rapids can drop to a class-1. Over half of the 4 miles between the end of Lower Snaketail Rapids and Myers Falls is of swifts with some class 1 rapids. There are long stretches that dance along nicely.