Feather, N. Fork

Warning! Dangerous Sieve in Piece of Risa!!!

Read about the fortunate outcome to a very scary pin here:

Description of Vertical Pin in Piece of Risa [broken link removed]

In case the link ever disappears, the key bits are: 'On the last rapid of the Tobin section, Piece of Risa, at a flow of 1000 cfs, I ran the rapid on river right. Unsuspectingly, my boat pinned vertically in a nasty hole that the river has bored into a boulder. This hole can not be seen at released flows. I had no idea it was there until I landed in it. I was pinned for about 10 minutes until I was able to free myself from the boat . . . I drove back the following day to remove the boat myself after the flow had been shut off. What I saw scared the shit out of me. The boat was pinned in a perfect tube through a granite boulder. Big hole at the top, small exit hole at the bottom. A perfect sieve. Had my kayak gone in at any different angle, the situation would have been much worse.'

What really put my hair on edge was a peek at the photos of the incident and of the sieve at low water:

Images of Vertical Pin in Piece of Risa [broken link removed]

Images of Sieve in Piece of Risa at Low Water [broken link removed]

Don't do this run without taking a look at these photos first so you'll know what to avoid when you get to this drop!