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We consider this our club run. We usually run it at least 6-10 times a season. Landslide is usually
easier than it looks. Everybody in our group has rolled in it and just flushed right through. We
always scout it on the left. Stop on the sandbar and walk carefully along left bank. I'ld call it a
IV but only because a line too far left will put a new scratch on your helmet. As always...make
your own decision. Shoot me an email if you're a solid class III paddler with a bombproof roll, and
you'ld like someone to paddle this section with. hugetroll@yahoo.com

My dad and I paddled this stretch April 30, 201 | [RIVER LEVEL]: 3.9 (at put-in), 3.77 at take-out
[PADDLER EXPERIENCE]: Bow (19 y/o f): novice; Stern (56y/o m): experienced paddler | [BOAT]: Dagger
caption complete with front and rear flotation, kneeling pillars, thigh straps, and no camping
gear. | [PERSONAL GEAR]: Full wetsuits, helmets, and water/tennis shoes. | This stretch was an
absolute blast. 9 miles of nearly non-stop class 3 rapids (a few stretches of calm, but there were
definitely more rapids than not). Great fun for the experienced. Guaranteed no boredom! [LANDSLIDE
RAPID]: This rapid is the first one you'll hit right if you put in at the 220 bridge. At 3.9, this
was a raging V. Experienced kayakers, have fun, but to anyone who's brainless enough to hit this in
a canoe or as an amateur in a kayak, I seriously hope you've got your will in order. Hey, this is
how natural selection works, right? When you see car-sized boulders, pull off to the right
immediately (left is a sheer cliff) and portage around or at least scout it. There is a calm place
to put in just downstream. The portage isn't the best (about 15 minutes through bramble-infested
cliff trails). If you're on the fence deciding whether or not to shoot this, don't. This is not the
place you want to have river rescue pull you out. The cliff by the road is high and impossible to
climb and pulling out here would be impossible. There is no cell reception, so you'd have go to
downstream to a quarter or a half mile to pull out and hope a car comes by to give you a lift. |
["SCHOOL BUS RAPID"] I don't know the official name of this rapid, but there is an old school bus
on the left shore, which is why we refer to it as such. There is a sand-bar/island right by the
bus. At 3.9 the river was a bit low on the right, so we went left. We got sucked in by the bank and
flipped in a solid III. The channel here is narrow, but the water is deceptively deep. at 5'9", I
couldn't touch bottom. The current here is pretty fierce and there's another solid III just a bit
after which you definitely don't want to swim, so if you flip, get out asap. It's deep, but there
are still lots of nasty rocks. My dad and I both came out bleeding from this one. | [LOW WATER
BRIDGE]: There is a great stretch of III's right before the low water bridge. Warning signs to
watch for are a sign to the left for Smoke Hole Cave (you'll just see the plaque, though), then a
broken down RV (if it's still there, but it looked like it had been there for quite a while).
You'll have to pull out in the middle of a long stretch of III's unless getting sucked under the
bridge is particularly appealing or you. There is not good place to pull out. We ended up grabbing
the left bank trying to stop. Good luck. [WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY]: (1) Worn a light
life jacket. My wetsuit provided some buoyancy, but with the current and depth, I would have
appreciated an extra boost. (2)Worn something over my ankles, considering I paddled this over two
weeks ago and the four inches between where my wetsuit stopped and my shoes began are still a
painful grey/blue from deep tissue bruising and complimented with some lovely battle scars. (3)Gone
with a decked canoe. Especially with higher water levels, there isn't a whole lot you can do in an
open boat not to swamp against 3-4' standing waves. | [ADVICE] (1)Take this with a grain of salt as
I'm still an amateur, but I lost one paddle, so I'd definitely bring an extra even if you're in a
kayak, and two or three if you're with a partner in a canoe. You're toast if you're trying this
with only one person paddling. Don't forget to strap them in! (2)Don't touch this if you're not a
good swimmer. (3)Leave the kids at home (4)Don't make this a training trip for new paddlers. I knew
the basics of paddling and still got us capsized 4 times. (5)Wear a full wetsuit even if the water
is gloriously warm. No one plans on capsizing, but if you do, when you get out and see the knicks
or tears in your suit, you'll be glad it wasn't your body. Happy Adventuring!

My adult daughter and I ran this section on April 30, 2011. We put in when the Franklin gauge was
at 3.9 (about noon) and took out at Big Bend Campground about 5 PM when the gauge was at 3.77. We
were in a 14' Dagger Caption designed for whitewater, with kneeling pillars, thigh straps and
flotation bags in front and back. We were in wet suits and helmets. I'm a well-seasoned amateur; my
daughter has been down 3 very easy rivers, so still a novice. I read a guide book online that said
"the first rapid below 220 is the best" and described it as a class III. Fortunately, someone at
the campground warned me about it (Landslide rapid). We walked around it. It looks like a mankiller
to me, definitely a class V. I think a world class kayaker could do it, but anyone less is taking
an unreasonable risk with their life. The portage "path" on the right is simply awful--high sharp
boulder, thorns and brambles, etc. But I'm still glad I portaged. Not too far above the low water
bridge at Smoke Hole the river splits--where an old dilapidated brownish school bus sits on the
left. We scouted (as we were driving to the put in) and ran the left side. There is a very large
boulder near the left bank with a very heavy flow of water over it and to the right of it. It looks
runnable just to right of the boulder, and we tried, but I think a cross current caught us and we
swamped, got bashed up a little bit. (If you swamp here, you need to get out fast, because there is
another very heavy rapid right ahead where the river re-converges and you don't want to swim it.)
The low water bridge looked deadly--about 6" of daylight between the top of the water and the
bridge, with heavy water flow. I could find no good place to get out above the low water bridge.
The water is very swift and heavy along the entire length--no eddies, sandbars, banks, etc. We
ended up grabbing saplings on the left bank and that finally stopped us, but it was not pleasant.
Otherwise, we had an awesome time. We encountered LONG stretches of non-stop class III waves. We
shipped some water in some of the waves (had to pull off and empty out). There were actually not a
whole lot of turns to be made--main challenge was picking the right spot and keeping the boat
absolutely straight when hitting the waves. We viewed the river one day before when the Franklin
gauge was at 4.34. There were a lot of REALLY ugly looking waves (backward bending whitecaps) at
that level. I was highly relieved when the level dropped to 3.9, and those ugly waves tamed down
considerably. We swamped 4 times. There seems to be NO "good" place to swamp on this river--the
fast, heavy flow is practically non-stop. Our flotation bags helped considerably in making the boat
more bouyant and easier to pull over to a bank. (There is a quiet pool below landslide falls--for
the lucky ones who survive.) When I do it again, I'll wear a life jacket to supplement the bouyancy
of the wet suit. My daugther got scratched up where her ankle area was exposed between where the
wet suit stopped and her water shoes begain. Next time she'll have uninterrupted coverage there in
case we swim again. I wore Frogg Togg neoprene wader booties (purchased at Gander Mountain) as
socks inside sneakers and I was fine.

We ran this at 2.75 feet Memorial Day weekend and got worked hard because we made the mistake of
bringing open canoes, loaded ones at that, onto the upper section. To be clear to all readers, open
canoes have no business above the campground. Perhaps we could have made some different decisions
and avoided disaster, but we would have undoubtedly swam no matter what. More water would have
definitely helped, and to be clear, we did not run landslide; we put in below that. Our advice:
save those open canoes for the section from the Big bend campground down to Petersburg, which
sounds like a relatively straightforward float at that water level, because our friend ran that
section the next day in an open canoe and reported as much. We all declined going further because
we were shaken from our adventure on the upper section. Long story short, we got a canoe wrapped on
a tree that was wrapped on a big rock pretty much exactly in the middle of the river where a lot of
people apparently get wrapped, between eagle rock and the low water bridge. Kayaks did fine. We've
run similar stuff in open canoes, but this was just faster than it looked and at that water level,
the tree was just in that not-so-sweet spot where we couldn't go over it and we couldn't see it
till we were up on it. The local swiftwater rescue team is going to retrieve that boat later this
week when the water goes down, and reportedly cut that huge tree out. As it is now, run that
feature far river left at low water until they cut the tree out. and keep open boats to below the
campground.

As an addition to my comments below, immediately downstream of the crux rapid, there is a ledge
with a very sticky hydraulic that could well be fatal if you aren't lined up straight and paddling
hard, so you need to maintain good control as you exit the main drop.

Something happened to the gauge at Petersburg. It is reading much higher than it used to. I'm
guessing about 2 foot. Does anyone know what changed?

Hurricane Isabell has altered the entrance to LandSlide Rapid.The sand bar on river left is gone.It
also appears that a large rock has migrated to the very end of the rapids wall on river left.There
is a juicy hole in the center waiting as you complete the S turn.