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Description
Once you are set up after running Upper Keeney, head down left of center. After the second rolling wave you will drop into a LARGE breaking wave/hole. Your fate is likely to depend on where it is in its cycle. If it's a wave you should go through with no problem. If it's a hole, there is a 50/50 chance that it will flip you. If you do flip, just time your roll with the wave train below. If you make it upright, paddle through the maddness and eddy out in the large eddy on the right. More skilled and daring paddlers like to catch this wave hole and surf it, but beware, just like Ender, you cannot see upstream. The good news is most rafts take the center line so they are not a factor.
FYI: Many beginners walk this rapid only to run Lower Keeney. This rapid is not very hard but the out flow leads directly into the Meat Grinder in Lower Keeney. There was a fatality here in 2004. Swimmers need to swim hard to the eddy on the left. This eddy is huge and provides a nice place to rest and watch some carnage coming down the river. Great photo op!
Location
Other Rapids on This Run (20)
Rapid
II
Rapid
III
Hazard
III
Rapid
II
Rapid
III
Playspot
III
Rapid
II
Rapid
II+
Rapid
III
Rapid
IV
Rapid
III
Rapid
IV
Rapid
III
Rapid
III
Hazard
IV
Rapid
III+
Rapid
III+
Current Conditions
5-Day Forecast
American Whitewater