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Section: Shenandoah Staircase (https://www.americanwhitewater.org/co...)
Level: 2.6
Put-In Coordinates: 39°51'36.9"N, 79°13'44.5"W

This is an overview of the Shenandoah Staircase at 2.6FT on the gauge. We run from the Millville, WV put-in down through Harper's Ferry and the Shenandoah/Potomac Confluence under Maryland Heights, and finish river right after White Horse. This is a lower level, featuring lots of scraping and slower moving water- but it was a great chance to learn about features, observe the underlying geology, and work on skills.

The primary skills we worked on were reading & running, using features like waves, pourovers, holes, etc. to pause, choose the next move, and keep the group together.

Some takeaways:

1. Picking the river apart into features, and learning to use those features to enable your kayaking, is always a good thing to focus on. Surfing, for example, isn't just a fun way to use a wave- it can give you a second to think about your next move, keep you out of the way of a raft, or give you time to look back upstream without hitting a strainer backwards.

2. Local trips are great not just for kayaking, but to get connected with the land, its history, the community, and the businesses that surround our rivers. I really enjoyed reading some local history, reading up on the local haunts (https://wvpublic.org/hauntings-from-t..., and getting a beer at Harper's Ferry Brewing (https://harpersferrybrewing.com/).

As always, comment to let me know what I'm doing badly, rapids I mislabeled, or events I have interpreted incorrectly in the video commentary!

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