Upper Gauley
Nemesis
INFORMATION
RAPID NAME: Nemesis
RAPID RATING: Class III
RIVER SECTION: Upper Gauley
There are three available channels in this rapid. The left channel is the widest. There is also a ten foot wide channel flowing from the center to the right, and a kayak slot on the far right. The boulder that separates the center channel from the kayak slot is badly undercut. The stratified right bank below this rapid is also quite undercut.
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Nemesis Rapid at 3200 cfs
Filmed from the center-right undercut at the entrance of the rapid, this video describes the features present in Nemesis Rapid and includes footage of whitewater rafting through the rapid..
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