You are correct. Take my (and everyone else's) posts from a decade ago with a grain of salt. BGW history facts are FAR more accessible these days than they were back then. Plus, in the last decade, people have surfaced a ton of previously-lost-to-the-hivemind park knowledge as well.
This is correct with old pictures that I have seen. It was a rise with only the force of the first dropp and running water to push you up. It was modified to the current configuration because as the average weight of riders increased the logs would sit to low causing them to scape and the valley.
