Pike, N.Br.
A) Carney Rapids/Old County A to Four Foot Falls (0.4 miles)
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Log in to add a reportThis is the entrance to (upper part of) Four Foot Falls.
The lower part of Four-Foot Falls has a barely boat-width slot tight river-left (up against a steep rock-face which forms the shore). At the low summer flow in the photo, all water pours into that slot. At higher (runnable) flows, water may sheet across the rocks in center and river-right.
Not all that tall, but definitely potentially ugly! This shot shows the whole drop. Since it is taken from overhead (from the 'Old CCC Road' bridge), the perspective totally flattens-out the drop.
A slightly more close-up shot of the timbers in Carney Rapids, showing the nasty huge spikes (left of frame) which would gouge and shred your boat or catch on your body or gear if you ran this at low-to-moderate flows. Also visible (foreground) is the huge timber in the base pool, waiting for a boat to hammer into it!
Shot from downstream, you can see the slot (river-left, frame-right, against the shore) and the sloping rock down the left of the frame. At boatable flows, this rock should be covered, and a 'center river' route down it would probably be the preferred line.
Shot from near river-level below the drop, this gives pretty good perspective of the overall drop (maybe only about 4-5 feet). At the brink (top) of the drop, frame-right (river-left) you can see planks looking almost like a fence -- I suspect remnants of a diversion/dam from long ago logging operations or something such. In the main part of the drop, timbers flank the water in this low-flow shot. Those timbers have large iron spikes standing vertically (almost perceptible in this photo, more visible in another photo). In the pool at the base of the drop you can see large rocks to frame-right (river-left), and another huge timber angling up out of the pool. (This has been in this location since at least 1980's when I first saw this falls.) At 'runnable flows', these would no doubt be lurking not far below the surface, almost certain to cause trouble to anyone who tried to run the falls (NOT RECOMMENDED!).