Chapter 4. Using JDBC

On my first trip down the Cossatot River, the first two sections were easy and beautiful, but I couldn't enjoy them fully. I'd never really been on a class IV rapid, and I'd read that section three would start out with vengeance: five waterfalls ranging from six to ten feet, with the coup de grace being the fourth drop, called Washing Machine. I unintentionally ran two of the five backwards. But every advanced paddler needs to start somewhere, and I became addicted.