Upper Gauley
Double Dilemma
INFORMATION
RAPID NAME: Double Dilemma
RAPID RATING: Class IV
RIVER SECTION: Upper Gauley
This technical rapid has the potential to cause you some big difficulties if you’re not careful. For rafters, the widest entrance is left of center and requires a well timed move to the right between two boulders. If you screw up the entrance, beware of the nasty pinning rock downstream on the left.
Some folks like to enter this one on the right and drop through a slot over a chunky ledge. Be careful over there however. A hidden sieve on the right side of the channel was the site of a recent kayaking fatality.
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Double Dilemma Rapid at 2800 cfs
Filmed from the top of the rapid, this video describes the features present in Double Dilemma Rapid and includes footage of whitewater rafting.
SELECT A RAPID BELOW
- Entrance
- Initiation
- Little Z
- Upper Collison Creek
- Lower Collison Creek
- Geek Wave
- Slant Rock
- Bud’s Boner
- Insignificant
- Screaming S-Turn
- Pick a Slot
- Iron Curtain
- Pillow Rock (V)
- Scales
- Bubble Rock
- Hungry Mother
- Meadow View
- First Drop of Lost Paddle
- Second Drop of Lost Paddle (V)
- Fourth Drop (AKA Tumblehome)
- Conestoga
- Shipwreck Rock
- Iron Ring
- Keegan’s Falls
- Double Dilemma
- Fingernail Rock
- Sweet’s Falls
- Thumper
- Nemesis
- Gillespie’s Hole
- Chicken Ender