Beaver

River guide video

  Very steep and technical, with one narrow waterfall after another.

The toughest of the three Beaver sections, this short section has big, narrow slides. It's way photogenic. Releases on weekends in September.

Hazard Warning at Eagle Putin!

FLOW paddler Steve Benedict found the following:

'I had to stop at Eagle to see what punctured my boat last week.

'FYI at the base of the entry slide (the slide, next to the dam, which most paddlers use to put in) is an eddy...as you peel out of the eddy, the pourover in the center of the stream is formed by two pieces of angle-iron and the planks they hold in a sort of dam. They stick up maybe a foot above the planks, are not visible at runnable flows, and can do a number on your boat...and possibly other body parts. On the other hand they are easily missed by staying to the right.'

Click here to see photos of the hazard.

Also see the Taylorville Section (Class III), which also runs on weekends in September, the Moshier Section (Class IV-V), which releases on one day of Labor Day weekend, and the Raquette River, Stone Valley Section, which shares some of the Beaver release weekends--as well as having some Summer releases of its own.

Posted by Chris Koll:

The releases are a product of negotiations by American Whitewater that resulted in a series of 11 whitewater releases during a typical year spread over three challenging sections of Beaver River whitewater. The sections are d

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