Dead Foot Falls

The rapid is usually entered center or just right of center and the current takes boaters directly into the Fang/Nemesis Rock. The easier channel is on the left of the rock. Below Fang/Nemesis the river drops over the remains of an old diversion dam providing great standing waves below. The passage on the left of Fang/Nemesis leads to a wide channel passing over the rocks of the dam, but the channel to the right leads to a pool above the rock piles of the dam and usually a narrower channel then must be taken over the remains of the rock pile. Near the end of the wave train below the dam is Dead Foot, a large boulder on river left. At high flows Dead Foot forms an impressive hole. The top of Dead Foot Falls is easily scouted from the road, but portions of the remainder of the rapids can be obscured by brush.