Rattlesnake

Rattlesnake is the most complex and enduringly challenging rapid on Daddy's Creek. After an entrance boulder field with some undercuts funnels the flow left, the river builds steam and rolls over a ramping, green wedging tongue, into a crashing hole and one of the most dynamic eddies around. Push through the back of the eddy and then drive left into the back of a hallway with an eddy on the left bank, allowing a break. From here, at low flow, drive out heading far right of center, boofing the right side of a high point with a righty. Check this spot for wood as it sometimes collects here. With enough water, over 550 cfs, it's pretty easy to drive just left of the high point and through a clean ledge hole. HAZARD - please stay right after finishing the rapid. There is a very bad undercut sieve on the left side under some large boulders. This spot is in the left side of the rapid's outflow. Make sure folks understand to finish hard right.