But as you do that, you re drifting to the outside of the turn, and down around the corner is what we call the Birthday Hole. And if you re not pulling to the left really fast, you end up in the Birthday Hole and you re upside down. You want to have a good, quality raft. People will come through with K-Mart style rafts and they get trashed, people get hurt, rafts get destroyed. On this particular stretch of rapid, everybody should have a helmet on, not so much from the rocks but other paddles.
People paddle frantically through here.
And also, if you should flip and fall out of the boat, there s a lot of rocks to contend with. And also a wetsuit. The water is really cold, and a wetsuit provides some protection.