Scott Run

This rapid is so much fun. There are lines on both sides and you have to link three and four moves together before you get to the eddy above the falls. If the water is high enough in the Potomac (many, many stars aligning) you can run the final twenty feet of gradient. Even without the waterfall, this rapid is high quality.
The rain came, and came, and came some more.... 13 inches in three days. Scott's Run is a rare treat that offers several fun class 3 rapids and the final gorge that gets close to class 5.

sticky holes at this level and the speed of the flow when you turn the bend into the george makes the normal class IV approach rapids solid class V's, espectially with the added wood blocking the river right line.
This is what Scott's Run Falls usually looks like because the Potomac River is rearly above 6 ft while Scott's is running in convenient combination creating a nice cushiny pool to drop into. When the river is anywhere below 5.5 and the falls clearly drop onto rocks this rapid becomes class V+ at any level on Scott's. When it is this high you could run it anywhere because of the power off of and around the landing zone. Not much lower then this the only line is far river left to avoid a painful 'clapper'. The falls also grow in hight up to 25 ft. though this pic does it no justice.
the crux of the falls is in the set up on this hard banking left turn perpelling off the river right wall just above the falls

shows the power comin off the rocks below. The bottom left of this pic is the boofing point to get to the river left landing zone below the falls before you have to fairy below the falls to get out. Getting to the river right pool from the right side of the drop is near impossible, if you didn't make it, there is also some possible hole trashing at that side of the falls.

This is a good reference flow at the put, seeing that there is no gauge for this run, at least that I know of. Georgetown Pike in the background at the Scott's Run trialhead parkinglot.
Random ledge hole, tipifies most of the run prior to the gradient of the george and the drop to the Potomac.
Looking back up the class four george approaching the falls. Watch out for fresh wood!! It'll keep you on your toes with this run.

At this level it is pretty forgiving. You can approach the falls from the river right side eddy at the bottom of the pic or go all the way down the left and you can even pretty much go off the fall anywhere over the lip. When the Potomac is lower and the rocks are exposed at the bottom middle of the drop you must drop into this chute side ways from the river left, get left, stay left, and boof to the left to avoid clapping the rocks off an 18 footer.

This waterfall is only runnable when the Potomac River is above 7.5' at the Little Falls gauge. Otherwise, you are landing on rocks. The creek also really needs to be pumping for the waterfall entry to be runnable. We're still waiting for the stars to align.

potomac was running about 7.3