Powell's Pocket Watch

Also known as: Rapid 24, Powells Pocket Watch, Pocket Watch

Powell's Pocket Watch (Rapid 24) is the first rapid below the Big Drops sequence — the first recovery-zone rapid after Satan's Gut. Named in reference to an incident during John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition in which a pocket watch was lost to the river at this spot. A welcome Class III- drop for crews decompressing after the Big Drops.