WIld Card trip in the Boone Area
We had some rains the week before the trip so the flows in the high country area were good. We decided to run the class I-II section of the Watauga River. I had been wanted to run this section of river for several years and never had any luck catching it at a good level. We had 8 on the trip. We had 3 tandum canoes – Keith and Theresa Raker, Chris Campbell and Taylor, John and Jamie. Melinda was in an OC1 and Diane was in a Kayak. The level was a fluffy 650 cfs. The 8 of us ended up running about 4 miles upstream of 321.