French Broad, West Fork

SR 1309 Bridge to US 64 Bridge(West Fork)

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December 26, 2007

Trip Report

ReporterGeoff Kohl

For the WFFB uninitiated reading this page, you definitely want to boof the ledge at the bottom of the first slide. There is a pothole in there, and I have watched it piton and pitchpole a very good boater who mis-timed his last stroke. At 3', it really doesn't want to let you get to the right wall to skim around the ledge with that small tongue. Middle, it seems, is where the pothole is. Most successful seemed to be entering middle at top and heading left, then throwing a righty boof off the lip. That drop is so much fun when you hit it correctly, but please don't take it lightly due to the pothole.