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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:57 pm
by skiing rules
Here are few pics from today on the river. Lot of skiing TR's so I figured a river TR was in order to keep it fresh.
This warm weather of late with rain mixed in has been great for paddling. Today got up to 70 degrees with partly cloudy skies- really Couldn't ask for a better day to be on the water in January! Level was 1.9 which makes for a really good run.
Mike in Jawbone at hydro rock. The big boulder to the right has a bad sieve in it.
Me coming over right crack at crack in the rock rapid
Top of Corkscrew. there's more to it than the pic suggests I swear!
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:10 am
by ROYMERCER
Really awesome pics. I sure do respect the people who do this . looks scary as hell to me!
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:00 am
by MSDOG
Did'nt happen to see Gnar playing the banjo did ya?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:07 pm
by teledave
Pretty bada$$.
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:31 pm
by GrizzlyEnton
This lacks the gnarscapone i like
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:03 am
by RMacSki
i was reading up on paddling one time and the seive in crack-in-the-rock rapid was the posterchild for entrapment.
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:44 am
by skiing rules
@GrizzlyEnton 284822 wrote:This lacks the gnarscapone i like
what is gnarscapone?
All of 5 falls in section 4 is pretty sieved/undercut. There have been a lot of fatalities in that section. It's weird standing on a rock scouting a rapid that multiple people have died under. Crack in tge rock has 3 lines and they all have places to get trapped.
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:19 pm
by Zeus
@skiing rules 284860 wrote: that multiple people have died
....and here's the reason I sold my boat.
Sick TR though.
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:22 pm
by billh1970
Section 4 is one of my paddling favorites, however I've always carried Crack In the Rock. That rapid looks ugly in the summer with low water, but not that difficult. The reward compared to the risk for Crack doesn't work out for me. I can vouch for the difficulty of Corkscrew.
I paddled the Nolichucky River on Saturday with isn't like Section 4 but still fun.
@skiing rules 284860 wrote:
All of 5 falls in section 4 is pretty sieved/undercut. There have been a lot of fatalities in that section. It's weird standing on a rock scouting a rapid that multiple people have died under. Crack in tge rock has 3 lines and they all have places to get trapped.
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:22 am
by jamsandwich
looks sick! i love the noli, close to home, mild, and no gapers!
but here's to not being able to go again until april!