New Nolichucky
Trip Report Nolichucky River November 17, 2025 I have been paddling the Noli for over 25 years and just love it for its beauty, remoteness and challenging rapids. On a sunny Sunday in November, I had the opportunity to paddle …
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FB9 still 1.0
We got on a low FB9 run on Sat w/ Marcos Harkness and Jeff, mostly small changes read & run (see Mort Cone ‘s post earlier). Cave is still there but full of junk (siding w/ screws), below cave new …
Noli 2.0 low water
Sonya Korabelnikova and I hit the Noli. Takeout parking is at AT trailhead Chestoa on river right where the bridge is no more (not on hostel side), can’t really go any further up toward the campground, and that’s not going …
Fall Colors Paddle 2024
I know, Snow Creek to Hemlock on the Dan isn’t the most exciting paddle, but the Fall Colors trip is more about enjoying time on the water and all the beauty Mother Nature has to offer on one of rivers. …
Upper Green
The trip report below was written by Stratford Douglas and I am posting with his permission since many in the CCC paddle the Upper Green. I will also note that another group organized a clean-up there on Saturday but I …
Franch Broad Section 9
I paddled FB9 today with Martha Mount. This will be a long post with lots of info. It was a great day but sad/disheartening to see that the banks were full of debris, including some that was once someone’s house. …
Little Buffalo Creek to Deep River (Hurricane Helene)
Trip was approximately 1 mile or so Lake, 1.25 of Creek and 0.25 upstream on Deep River I had foot scouted this run previously using my packraft from the Deep River launch on US-15/501. The creek had looked promising and …
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Big Group on a Little River (South Fork Little – Guess Rd to Little River – US 501)
I had the fortunate experience of paddling with a large to me group (9 paddlers total) down the Little River. We had Gregory Moon, Anna Ploghoft, Guy Spiher, Evan Spiher, William Holeman, Joe Briscoe, Mitch Engel, Alton Chewning and myself …
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Little River – Zebulon, NC
I had as a personal goal to run whitewater on three “Little Rivers” in central NC. This past winter I was able to hit two of those three, but the last one in the Zebulon area has been a hard …
Low Water Flat River (State Forest Rd to Lake Michie)
We had high hopes for being able to pick anywhere in the Durham/Chapel Hill area to paddle Saturday morning. The day before, rain seemed to hover around the Hillsborough area for the bulk of the day and we had hoped …
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