Glad To Have H20

Well its been nice having water and consistent rain finally. Headed over to Alabama and ran Johnnies for the first time and then went to the Tellico with some old friends.

NOR GA

DODD CREEK

Dodd Creek is a beautiful stream tucked away in a tight gorge right outside of Helen Georgia. Dodd runs a lot due to its undisturbed watershed and tight gorge that has seven major rapids. It is very steep with must make eddies, anyone who tries to run this creek please try to keep a low profile.  Pictures at low flow (Not Running)

Lower Stekoa Creek

Stekoa Creek has always intrest me ever since the first time i passed by it on the Chattooga. Stekoa has a lot of flat water a couple massive waterfall rapids, great scenery etc.. What has detoured me in the past was the water quality. However this creek always runs. Always. So far I have not puked or diareahed on myself. I think the upper Stekoa is a lot better but the water quality is supposively worse.

Russell Fork: The Heart of Appalachia

The Russell Fork River located on the boarder of Virginia and Kentucky is fantastic. It releases water every weekend in October. The rapids are good class IV-V fun rapids with powerful holes and continuous nature. The Russell Fork is a great run and good alternative when nothing is running.
The beautiful Russell Fork Gorge
The camping at the Russell Fork is super sweet!
Mark Miller running El Horrendo
Jason Parker hitting the boof at Towers
The beautiful scenery at cClimax
John Grace racing through Climax


Unknown boaters dropping into the gorge

Green River

/> This photo is one of my favorite pictures. The Narrows are down there in between those two big ridges.
Wilson Bell running Gorrilla.
Nich Hasse running Gorrilla for his seventh time today! Nice work Mr. Hasse 

Thanks to Tuxedo Hydro station we as kayakers are able to keep our sanity in the desert, or southeast as others remember it. Yesterday it rained almost 3 inches on the green. The next day the level was around nine inches of sweetness and reminded us all how good she really is!

Helton Creek Falls

This waterfall is about eighty feet off vertical. Never run. The falls below it has been run and looks like a lot of fun.  I think the big one goes.

Working for the Weekend

We all have to work to enjoy life. Here are a few shots of Drew Duval and I working on a garage. Also a few shots of the first tile job we did. 
Drew Duval taking apart the garage door opener. 

This is a tile job Drew and I did.

Jason Parker Heading off sunshine.

Drew Duval enjoying life.

Billy Jones firing off Gorilla.

Drew taking Matt Hollingsworth into power slide for his first time.
Matt Hollingsworth running the Green for his first time.

Matt had a great day for his first time down the narrows.

The Rain is Coming.

However hurricane Gustav does not look like it will bring much rain to the southeast, the tropics are firing off. Tropical Storm Hannah looks like it will deliver rain to the Southeast and tropical depression nine is definitly  coming this way. Hopefully T.D. Nine will follow in Hannahs footsteps, wherever it goes it looks like the Southeast will get rain from both Hannah and T.D. Nine. Hopefully T.D. Nine wont be devastating to the Georgia coast as it has potential to be a big one. Maybe, just maybe THE SOUTHEAST IS BACK!!!!

It Finally Rained Here In the Southeast

Will Lyons looking down the Toxaway. 


Tropical depression Fay came through and dropped over six inches of rain widespread and dropped twelve inches at my house. Also a tornado came through my neighborhood, every stream in the southeast flash flooded, and we drove around all day looking for the smallest stream we could find. We ended up at moccasin creek with the best of intentions, however when we put in we found ourselves fighting the rhodo usually located six feet above the creek. Scary day, we boated for nearly five hundred yards before we were scrambling for the banks. Many people swam today, Tuesday August 26, 2008, many people made bad decisions to put on rivers with it raining the way that it was, and many people barely made it. Let this be a reminder to everyone who loves kayaking, the weather and river will always be more powerful than we and much respect for the river is needed for successful missions on the river.  Always be aware of what is going on around you and your surroundings and if you feel like it has rained to much....... Then it probably has!
Hiking up Moccasin creek.

Bull sluice Chattooga river.

Nathan Silsbee going for the meat at Bull Sluice. Level 3.2
Nathan getting his meat grinded