Raymondskill Creek

The drop on this run which most boaters refer to as 'the Portage' in the middle of the run after the double drop 'Iron Staircase' that was never thought to be runnable, was successfully run today. The drop is a 20ft slightly off vertical drop, pretty much freefalling, onto a sloped slab which ramps about 15 ft ending with a 6 foot boof into the pool below. A boater swam the drop by accident last fall after swimming above the falls and could not make it to the bank in time and somehow was not seriously injured, which made us think that it could be done. Today it was successfully run in a kayak twice by Eli Landis. He cracked his boat the day before and decided to risk completely demolishing the boat by ghost running the boat over the drop first to find the right line. After the boat cleaned the line we decided it could be done but the transition at the bottom would be too abrupt. Eli told us he was going to run it and after all of us hinting towards trying to talk Eli out of it, he went up and did it anyway. He made it look so good it convinced all of us to give it a go. It has now been run 6 times, all clean lines. Eli decided to call it 'Flirting with Disaster'