On the other hand, if the main current has a comparatively clear chute, running through is not a difficult matter as in the present case.

We pulled up-stream a short distance before putting out into the middle.

Then we took the rapid as squarely as possible.

We saw that we would have to go sharply to the left to avoid one line of rocks, and then to the right to clear another, both of which actions were successfully accomplished.

Then we waited below for the others.
They had no trouble either, and the three boats sped on and on into the greater depths beyond where wilder waters were foaming.
All rapids have "tails" of waves tapering out below, that is the waves grow smaller as they increase the distance from the initial wave.