Difficult Run

The view from the new guy in town. First the good news, there is a nice trail down the whole river left side. Its nicely maintained and goes down to the confluence with the potomac. If it were open you could probably drive a buick down to the confluence on the trail with no problems.

All in all there are about 7 real rapids of varying difficulty, and the nasty looking class 5 drop. The trail on the left makes for easy scouting and relatively easy portaging. The class 5 drop will involve carrying your boat about 100 feet up and around the cliff on the left.

When you see a large rock face/cliff on the left you are right above the big drop. The stream is fairly wide above and split by an island. The last drop is about a 4 foot tall pourover that makes a sticky looking hole, then the class 5 drop. Probably easiest to scout and portage by taking out above the pourover.

Bradley