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"Lunch Rock Follies"

RapidClass II39.30820, -77.75745
"Lunch Rock Follies"

Description

AKA 'Rocky Road', AKA 'Round the Mountain'.  Small waves and ledges.  The name 'Round the Mountain' might be better thought of as a specific (mostly by hardboats - class II+) way of running this rapid, which is to run just to the right of a large rock at the beginning right of the rapid, but then stay as left as possible and run a tongue across the face of the rapid.  Where this tongue confronts the main current in the middle of the rapid, this line necessarily becomes a ferry, then where the two currents merge, a tongue again.  A great way to learn how to run a rapid with conflicting currents.  The rapid can also be run straight on (usually by rafts and duckys) which requires some manuvering because of the non-aligning tongues through the small ledges.


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