Too high
The Little Beaver is at 9.6 foot and it goes up for about 18 hours after it is done raining At 6 ft it is fun, no rocks and the waves at EAgle rapid get big and that last rapid washes out but when it is about 8ft the river is up in the trees on the side if you fall out there is no bank to pull over to and the current is strong so you can't get the boat over to the side so you are in for a very long swim, 2 years ago after a summer thunderstorm I reasoned if 6 ft was fun 8 ft would be even more fun and talked my friends into going down and nearly drowned my one friend she had been a competive swimmer but in that currents she couln't get to the side and we couldn't get the boat to side, she had her life jacket on and it was about 1/2 mile to where the current slowed enough to get out when we got to that spot there were 5 other kayakers who were also swept into that spot they had even longer swims.
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