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Rapid NC Class III+

Magic Carpet Ride

American Whitewater 35.2472, -83.6543

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Gauge Conditions

Nantahala River near Hewitt, NC Downstream Primary

Runnable: 900.0 – 2,000.0 CFS

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Photo

Photo courtesy of American Whitewater

Description

From the put-in to Magic Carpet Ride, it is "choose your own adventure." MCR is the first rapid below the put-in. It offers many options, all of which are viable. At higher flows, it can be run either right or middle. The right tends to be meaty and offers a nice boof at the bottom instead of the slide. At lower flows, there is an actual mossy rock slide that you run into the eddy. After this rapid, you have a wave train into one of the largest rapids on this section, PBJ.