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FIRST DESCENT, HIGH FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA, USA Dupont State Forest, NC: Mid-spring Ryan Mcavoy and Michael Ferraro began scouting High Falls like a sick obsession, drawing lines down photos of the rock dome trying to negotiate a path down. This slide drops a total of 300 feet in elevation in about 100 horizontal feet, making it pretty darn steep. The drop also contains three crux moves. The first crux is after entering far right driving across the flow to get as far left as possible. The consequences of not making it left are possibly fatal due to a rock shelf on river right. After this, there is a 15 to 20-foot vertical section of slide with an exploding flat reconnect at the bottom that could be gapped. The last crux…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2019

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