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boulder garden
A section of river choked with large boulders, creating a maze of channels, drops, eddies, and hydraulics. Running a boulder garden requires constant maneuvering — reading the gaps, choosing lines in real time, threading between rocks with inches to spare.
Etymology
Boulder, from Middle English bulderston (from a Scandinavian source, akin to Swedish dialect bullersten, “large stone in a stream”) + garden, from Old French jardin.