RIVER MAP
1) Three Oar Deal - LOOK - DON'T TOUCH! At mid-range water levels and up, this huge hydraulic is an awesome display of the river's power.
2) Big Kahuna - It's a rodeo...take a tight rein here! As the water gets lower, Kahuna gets better!
3) Lunch Counter - Naming the Wild One! Dave recalls the day the Lunch Counter was named in excerpts from "The Wind is My Witness, a Wyoming Album" by Mark Junge; Copyright 1997, used with permission of the State of Wyoming, Wyoming Department of Commerce: "...So I took a few liberties with the truth. I told Henry, as a matter of fact, that I had been down here with a mutual friend of ours. We came around the corner and the wind was blowing, the caps off these waves started coming up the river, and it looked something like the rolling surf on the ocean. I couldn't tell what it was, so I turned around to Henry and I said 'Henry, uh, what in the hell is that?'. He looked back and he says 'Hell I don't know, I've never been here either.'. And right then I said (I guess it was the vernacular of the day) 'Well, if we're ever going to get our lunch we're going to get it right now.' We went over that first wave and I swear it looked like it was forty feet down the other side of the next wave...my eyes were bigger than the waves. But we got through that thing. It was such a rush, an adrenaline rush. We looked at each other and both of us just started hooting and hollering, and I was hooked. I mean that was it. And he was too... "We used to just kind of laugh and joke about it when we'd come by. We'd look at that thing and we'd just call it "The Old Lunch Counter". I always wanted to call it Calamity Jane. But it was too late, it was Lunch Counter Rapids. Somebody wrote it on a map or something, and so its been the Lunch Counter ever since..."
4) ROPE - Visually spectacular with its limestone cliffs, it is also on of the longest series of rapids in the canyon.
5) COTTONWOOD - The last major rapid of the trip. What a way to finish! It is the longest rapid we run, and with its big rollers in high water and numerous "holes" in low water, many think it is also the most fun. It will leave you wet and laughing.