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Rapid TN Class III+

The Surprise Hole

Crooked Fork Creek - 2. Potter's Falls to Camp Austin (Lower) (TN)

Monitor this Rapid

Gauge Conditions

Emory River at Oakdale, TN Downstream Primary

Runnable: 3,500.0 – 10,000.0 CFS

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Photo

Photo courtesy of American Whitewater

Description

After a lot of class II action, the river makes a left turn along a cliff on the right. Drop off into a hole as close to river-right as possible due to a rock that awaits your center line. This is the start of the final mile to the Emory.