Learn more. At 7 p.m. on July 7, there was an unexplained shutdown of the McKay Hydroelectric Station below Ripogenus Dam. This so-called “trip event,” that lasted over 4 hours, left the ...

But rafting the West Branch of the Penobscot does not have to entail risking a harrowing swim down its Class V rapids through the legendary Cribworks or Ripogenus Gorge, as my fiancee Suzanne was ...