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1992 Olympic paddler, Ralph Rhein (Switzerland), enters the formidable rapid Zeta, so named because the river has carved a Z shape in the granite.  The line is easy enough to see, anything other than paddling hard right will probably land you in the 'Room of Doom', an eddy on river left that pounds into the canyon wall, literally pounding the life out of the kayakers that have had the misfortune to be swept in there.

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