Sac à noeuds (Gordian Knot)

There is a huge and deep hole here at the bottom of the drop extending from the river-right bank almost all the way across. Avoid the hole on river-left at the top, then cut left to avoid the big one.

Translation note: The french phrase 'Sac a noeuds' literally translates to the words 'Bag of Knots'. The closest cultural equivalent in english is Gordian Knot; an ancient Greek legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable or impossible problem. The best description of the french name is 'a complicated, confusing, or tangled affair or set of circumstances'. Other suggested meanings are the english slang phrases 'a tangled web', or 'three-ring circus'. It is a common french phrase; there's even a movie by that title 'Sac de noeuds (1985)' [ English description here], with the english release title 'All Mixed Up'. For more info see this Wikipedia entry in french.

English speakers sometimes translate 'bag' into the english slang 'capture'; As in—The river 'bagged' another paddler and tied the bag shut with a knot. This makes more sense to paddlers scouting the hole at the rapid bottom. It's the only hydraulic where the Streamkeeper has seen both a paddler plus boat recirculated as a single unit.