Wapwallopen Creek in kayaks – Raw Video 2017

2017 – This creek is a little strange.  It’s on old sedimentary rock made of resistant layers like sandstone and shale.  As a result, it tends to stay slow and level for a little ways, the break through a layer of rock in a waterfall.  Many drops are stairstep like as the water breaks through resistant rock layers.  There are 3 significant waterfalls in the gorge.  Powder Hole is the most well known of the falls, called that because black powder mills were there in the 19th century.  This is a Class 5 run.

Rob Avery