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Main
Channel
The Lorne
Once you've worn yourself out playing the eddies and holes of McKoy's, and
cartwheeled your way down through the ensuing wave train, you will find yourself
drifting through a swirly pool that carries you toward some small rocky islands
where you can pull out and take a breather. You now have a decision to make
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which way to go?
Carrying on downstream through a very large pool (it's actually more aptly
described as a lake with current), you will come to a widening in the river
where the Rocher Fendu Dam feeds additional volume into the river from the
left
hand shore. Here the river splits into a myriad of different channels, most
of
which are dead-ends. By going straight, you will eventually come to two rapids
which mark the start of the Middle Channel of the Ottawa. Bearing hard right
instead will take you into what is, for all practical purposes, yet another
lake. Halfway across this lake, you will begin to sense a low rumble which
grows
into a roar as you approach the top of the first big rapid on the Main Channel,
"The Lorne".
Obscured by an island until you are almost on top of it, The Lorne is a
crashing, spectacular rapid made up of huge waves, even bigger holes, and
the
exposed bedrock of the Canadian Shield. Contained within it's violence are
some
of the best playspots on the entire river. In order to aid in visualization,
the
rapid will be broken down into three individual sections. |