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. …
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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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Boone Fork – William Mauney
I haven’t personally run either Boone Fork or the Upper Watauga, but I had always wanted to paddle Boone Fork. American Whitewater announced earlier this week that there is a dispute on the lower sections of Boone Fork and Upper …
Beating the Heat on the Nanty
The Nantahala River, as usual, provided an excellent means to escape the summer heat last weekend. Kathy Cusick and Martin Doyle joined my last minute quest to knock off some rust after a long layoff from paddling, and the Nanty …
L3/L4 Swiftwater Rescue Weekend
The Carolina Canoe Club hosted their first Safety and Rescue clinic of the year this past weekend and we couldn’t have asked for better weather or river level. I consider myself lucky to have had the awesome mentors in this …
Tar River and Cattail Creek
Tar River (Shock Overton Rd to Hwy 15), 2.17 miles Aaron Vaughan and I ran this section that we had read about in Paul Ferguson’s Paddling Eastern North Carolina. It was the second most exciting in terms of gradient that …
Undisclosed Haw Tributary
Normally I’d be sharing full details on where we went today for the Paddler as a B-Sides. I’ve got a few more creeks that I’d like to check out before I write one specifically on the Haw drainage. This trip …