The Main Payette, by Megan

I have three words to describe the Main Payette: foaming white death. This stretch of river was definitely my favorite stretch this whole trip. The Main Payette is a class II/ III stretch that runs for about seven miles. You put in at a town called Banks which consists of a cafe, a restaurant, a bathroom, and a lot of rafters. The first two major raids are class II: Whitewater 101 and Whitewater 102. These rapids are great for warming up. They have big waves and virtually no obstacles. The next rapid is called GLOYF, which stands for Go Left Or You're Fired (or at least that's how W.I.L.D. stated it). It's a class III. It also has huge waves along with a huge hole on the right (hence the name). The waves of the left are massive. When you are in the trough of the wave, all you are thinking is "How am I going to get over this?". It is so exhilarating! The next rapids are Bennett's and Mike's Hole. There's also a rapid we nicknamed Maggie Swirl because Maggie kept getting caught on the swirly eddy lines. The next major rapid is Chief Parrish. Basically, it's a huge wave train with a big pool at the bottom. The next major rapids are Mixmaster and AMF. Mixmaster also has huge waves with a really big diagonal curler on the left. AMF, my favorite rapid, has a huge wave on the left. This one is even bigger than the one on GLOYF, and is a lot of fun to go through. AMF stands for Adios My Friend, but Sean likes to call it Adios Megan Friedman, just to mess with me.
We rafted this trip as well as kayaked it. We did some pretty fun things while rafting, like flipping the rafts and riding on them upside-down, or reenacting The Titanic on the front of the rafts.
This stretch was a lot of fun with a lot of big waves. It was definitely worth getting up at 6 in the morning to paddle it one last time, and I would do it again in a heartbeat.