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 …
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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 …
Spring FB9 Paddle
It was a gorgeous spring day, with a flow of ~1900 cfs, and I must admit that I was a little nervous. Having scheduled a paddling trip on the same day and section as the Battle of the Broad mass-start …
Sunday Appomattox Run
Anna and I found ourselves in Richmond on 2024/04/14. The James was higher than we fancied running with just the two of us, 10+ feet, so we made our first descent of the Appomattox ( Chesdin Dam to Ettrick ) …
Nantahala Surfing Safari
Participants: Tom Womble (Bryson City), Nate and Karen Taylor (Durham), Trish Hipgrave (Bryson City), Dave McClure (Murphy), Brian and Felicia Friesen (Charlotte), Rich Ruhlen (Johnson City, TN), Mark Holmberg (Andrews). Weather: Sunny, Blue Sky, Breezy, high 60s low 70s. Water …