Pigeon

1. Walters Power Plant at Waterville/Big Creek to Hartford Bridge(Pigeon Gorge / The Dirty Bird!)

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October 25, 2002

Trip Report

ReporterChris Guptill

One more little note about Accelerator:

It was created when the folks building

I-40 blasted out part of the river bed.

Thus, it's an unnatural rapid. being

upside down in your boat here is real

bad, as the natural angular cleavage of

the rocks in the area and the blasting

combined make for a rather chaotic

river bed. I've run the hole here a

whole lot of times (I was a guide

there), and it is frequently run by hard

boaters. But for pete's sake, hit it

straight. There are a lot of nasty little

obstacles just below. if you want to

avoid the hole, I would suggest setting

up more center. There's a green

highway that will take you straight

down.

Oh, and at lower flows, running the

cheat line on the right in the Guide can

almost be harder and more

dangerous from a flipping stand point

in the hole. That side is real shallow,

and I've seen a number of head

injuries there from boaters who rode

down underwater. Hit the hole straight

and you're golden.