Winston Offil on line, and making it look easy on the main drop of Vortex Rapid, the Forks, Kern River (1996). Paddlers on the Forks in 2008 have reported that the rapid Vortex has changed. They say the big boulder on river right bracketing the drop into the infamous Vortex hole has shifted, and the Slide Rock has tipped up and to the river right.