I set up to seal-launch from a rock about 3 feet up. My bow hit a rock, sideways, and it flipped me. I was upside-down, still on dry land, with my cockpit stuck on a rock. When we were mostly assembled in the eddy, we dropped off, one by one, into the Entrance rapid. And this is one river without warmup.
Entrance is a pulsating mass of rocks and holes.
That is to say, it s part of the Tallulah Gorge. With a big-ol backender, as far as I know I was the only one who got an invertary experience in this rapid. Others were to get their due in the next. Recon Ron finishing the Boof at the end of the Entrance rapid. When we ran it last year, nobody had gotten both legs all broke at the Thing.