Upper Gauley
Slant Rock
INFORMATION
RAPID NAME: Slant Rock
RAPID RATING: Class III
RIVER SECTION: Upper Gauley
Slant Rock Rapid starts out shallow and technical. The widest channel converges against the right bank at the bottom of the rapid washing up along side and onto a slanted undercut rock.
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Slant Rock Rapid at 2800 cfs
Filmed from the left, this video includes a description of Slant Rock Rapid and contains footage of whitewater kayaking 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