Rapid 6

Rapid 6 is one of the upper Cataract rapids, sitting between Rapid 5 (mile 210.7 upstream from Lees Ferry) and Rapid 7 / North Sea (mile 209.5). At moderate flows it is a read-and-run Class III drop; at high water it feeds directly into Rapid 7's Toreva Block boulder field, extending the approach to North Sea into a sustained wave train. Historically significant as the site of one of the early boat-wrecking incidents documented in Webb/Belnap/Weisheit's history of the canyon — a story that earned it a local reputation in the commercial-guide era, though modern guides and private parties rarely use that reference today.