Ocoee Drawdown 2025
I look forward to Drawdown every year. Last year Hurricane Helene did her best to wash Drawdown out. I hoped for a calm week for Drawdown 2025, only to have not one but TWO hurricanes approaching! However, Humberto and Imelda …
River: Ocoee
Another Ocoee (and Nantahala) Weekend
Another Ocoee (and Nantahala) Weekend Trip Report – 5/10, 5/11/2025. Anna Ploghoft and Dave Johnson are very generous with their time and enjoy leading trips. Paddling trips are really what the CCC is all about, along with a short list …
Wet Ocoee Weekend
With rain in the forecast, Linda and I headed up to the Ocoee. We arrived at Thunder Rock before the storm, managing to get the tent up and be warned by the camp host of the incoming storm. We settled …
Seeing Rock City
Seeing Rock City a Trip Report on the Middle Ocoee River by Alton Chewning -I was thinking about a vacation, doing a little tour of eastern Tennessee. As a youth, I recall going with my parents on rare mountain …
Ocoee Drawdown 2023
Well, that’s another Ocoee Drawdown on the books. The Middle Ocoee is a Class III/III+ river with 20+ named rapids packed almost back-to-back for five miles. What’s Ocoee Drawdown (also referred to as “Secret Week”)? The last week of September …
Ocoee Drawdown 2022
The last week of September is Ocoee Drawdown, where the Ocoee runs the entire week. During the week of Drawdown the Ocoee has little to no raft traffic (literally a couple of rafts here and there). You can paddle the …
Slice & play the Middle Ocoee
We had a small group on the Middle Ocoee on a hot WOR day slice, dice and play our way down the river. New moves were tried, old ones improved on, and others tried only once (for obvious reasons). Dave …
Ocoee Weekend
I’ve had a long Spring, and was looking forward to my first chance on the Ocoee this year. While we started out with eight signed up, we lost three in the last couple of days to other causes. One due …
Ocoee Drawdown 2021
The Middle Ocoee is a Class III/III+ river with 15 rapids packed almost back-to-back for five miles. One of the most heavily-rafted rivers in the world, during Drawdown the dam-controlled Ocoee runs the entire week, with little to no raft-traffic …
Ocoee Coordination
Ocoee Coordination I was looking forward to a New River Gorge trip John McDonald had considered. However, John had injured his shoulder/neck, didn’t want to paddle a remote river, and wasn’t certain how he’d be feeling as the weekend approached. …