Windy Run - Military Road to Potomac River


Windy Run, Virginia, US

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Military Road to Potomac River

Usual Difficulty V+ (for normal flows)
Length 0.5 Miles

Gauge Information

Name Range Difficulty Updated Level
FOURMILE RUN AT ALEXANDRIA, VA
usgs-01652500 1500 - 5000 cfs V+ 00h24m 20 cfs (rc= -0.4 )


River Description

Very small and tight with plenty of wood. Moves very fast and there are few eddies. mostly class two and three until the final waterfall. Questionably runnable, but definitely has never been run before. Put in at Windy Run Park off Military Road and run it to the Potomac. There is a trail alongside the run to hike. Bobby Miller is the only person I have ever heard talk about running this.

Lat/longitude coords are an estimate, from TopoZone.
StreamTeam Status: Not Verified
Last Updated: 2008-03-20 07:16:09

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Landing Zone

Detail Trip Report  Landing Zone  Wendy Run, VA(20.18KB .jpeg)

High Water

Detail Trip Report  High Water  Wendy Run, VA(17.28KB .jpeg)

Put In Lot

Detail Trip Report  Put In Lot  Wendy Run, VA(92.50KB .jpeg)

Top of Falls

Detail Trip Report  Top of Falls  Wendy Run, VA(82.96KB .jpeg)

Wendy Run Falls

Detail Trip Report  Wendy Run Falls  Wendy Run, VA(67.87KB .jpeg)


Gauge Information

Gauge Description:

Runs when it looks good

Gauge Information

Name Range Difficulty Updated Level
FOURMILE RUN AT ALEXANDRIA, VA
usgs-01652500 1500 - 5000 cfs V+ 00h24m 20 cfs (rc= -0.4 )

RangeWater LevelDifficultyComment
1500 -5000 cfs barely runnable-high runnable V+

Report - Reports of Windy Run Military Road to Potomac River and related gauges

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Reports

When River/Gauge Subject Level Reporter
5y220d16h19m Wendy Run [VA] Landing Zone High Erik Amason
6y119d16h19m Wendy Run [VA] Put In Lot n/a Erik Amason

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User Comments


2008-06-20 08:34:33 (1330 days ago)
Kinda looks like Crazy Creek falls here in Harpers Ferry, unrunnable, unless the potomac is up
around 20' plus, pads out the landing zone. Good luck running that horrendous looking thing! Edit

2006-09-18 00:06:52 (1972 days ago)
Geoff CalhounDetails
erik you are nuts. that is the mankiest drop of all the potomac creeks, and thats saying something.
you would want the potomac to be flooded to raise the level of the/create a hint of a pool at the
bottom so you land in water...I doubt it is ever run. sucessfully.

2005-10-22 22:51:10 (2302 days ago)
Erik AmasonDetails
Wendy Run Falls maybe runnable despite a very tricky approach. The current pushes hard right to
left and spreads the flow over shallow rocks at the lip of the drop. You would want to be on the
inside right corner and fall into the slot next to the sloping slide on the top left porsion of the
falls. You would then be prapelled ten feet onto a leftward sloping rock for a sumwhat hard clapper
and then rickashaded right where you would want to be into the landing pool. Minus the long wedged
in the middle of the falls and all the boulders in the landing pool that make it to shallow to even
land flat into, it could be done with some rearanging. The hieght of the falls is somewhere around
35 - 40 feet.
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