Tygart Valley

kdavis wrote, in Boater Talk (http://boatertalk.com/forum/BoaterTalk/218315):

'thought i was going to drown today. pretty scary.

'second time down through the falls at valley falls. dropped the top falls, and went sideways. side surfed into the curtain. windowshaded, couldn't roll up. punched out, and went deep. i guess i got recirced about 4 times, being held down around 30 seconds or so each time. finally came out far enough past the boil to grab the grab loop on my friends boat. needless to say, this scared the hell out of me. i was completely exhausted after all this. all i know, is i don't wanna go through that again. 'they' say valley falls is as safe as it gets for learning, but it still has quite a bite if you f*up. got back on the pony and dropped the lower falls. clean. but it took a while to stop shaking.'

Whoa.

Even something with a relatively harmless reputation still has a nasty bite, if you screw up. The top left side has a reputation for spanking the errant paddler pretty hard.