Feather, N. Fork

Hit Your Line at the Top of 'Piece of Risa' Too! In a BoaterTalk thread on the pinning incident (available at http://boatertalk.com/forum/BoaterTalk/1129154), Mike Fentress describes another scary incident in 'Piece of Risa', this one starting in a nasty eddy on river left at the top to the rapid: In case the link ever disappears, the key bit is: 'Last month, at the top left of the same rapid, a boater was swept into the top left eddy just past the entrance. I'm pretty sure he didn't go there on purpose, as it in no way looks inviting. Anyhow, we were just done with the run, up on shore, and saw him climbing out of the rocks near the bottom. He had been sucked deep under the big rock that forms the bottom part of the top left eddy, and came out near the obvious undercut at bottom left.' Mike's conclussion: 'I think the description given in AW about the safest way to run the rapid is right on - enter top left, stay left of center until towards the bottom, then go right.'