Upper Gauley
Pick a Slot
INFORMATION
RAPID NAME: Pick a Slot
RAPID RATING: Class III
RIVER SECTION: Upper Gauley
This rapid presents the paddler with a number of options for lines through this jumble of boulders. There are some wide open slots on the left and some more interesting and difficult lines in the center and to the right.
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Pick a Slot Rapid at 2800 cfs
Filmed from the right bank, this video describes the features present in Pick a Slot Rapid and includes footage of kayaking and 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