Colin has been putting together all of the footage we have taken in the last few months, and here is the result: Includes Raven Fork, Watauga, Tallulah, Green, Chattooga, Wilsons, Laurel Slides, Cheoah, Elk, and probably some more cause this video is stacked.
Southeast Kayaking from Colin Hunt on Vimeo.
Sweet video Ballin'!!
Like I said in the last post, we headed down to Cullowhee and got on the Raven Fork again on friday afternoon. It was timed perfectly, me, Colin, and Mac were all out of class by 11 and left Boone by 12. By the time we met up with Paul, Jay, and Jake, set shuttle, and hiked in it was about 5 o'clock. Jake and Paul had never been down before, so it was a little bit stressful trying to show them the lines while trying to keep moving and be out before dark. Plus there were 6 of us, so the eddies were crowded as well. Everything went great though, good lines everywhere. And I remembered my elbow pads! yay. I looked at Big Boy for a long time but had to walk away...this time. Jake and Mac fired it up with great lines though!
Getting to Caveman was a relief, we all walked back up for more goodness. At Mangler, it officially got dark and we blue-angled through the rest of the "boogie" to Emmanuel's.
Going from sitting in English class in Boone that morning to running the Raven Fork made for one great day!
Here are a few surprisingly good quality still frames from Colin's camera:
"Think Werner would sponsor me if we take a picture with all of their paddles?"
Hiking into the beautiful, lush Ravens Fork
Mortal Combat
Mac Mcgee is a big boy
Me in the ring with Mike Tyson
Paul airing out Caveman!
Jay - caveman is a lot harder at low water!
Jay boofing with Mac on cave saftey
Colin avoiding the cave, nice line!
Me in caveman at low light, it got dark shortly after.
Thanks Jake Ament and Colin Hunt for the photos!
Saturday we woke up early and went to the Cheoah. It was a juicy 1500cfs and it made for a really fun day, we did one forest service bridge down lap, then a full lap, and then 3 more fs bridge down laps. It was great, but left us feeling extremely tired and beatdown after the Raven Fork the day before especially.
Sunday we tried to go to Eternity hole for some playboating but were skunked! Apparently its the first time it hasn't been running since about december. Not feeling like trying to boat anything that would require more effort than park and play we headed back to Boone to work on building a playhole of our own...but that has to remain a secret for now :) Nah not really, its on the Watauga and doesn't look like anything right now but hopefully we can get some good work done on it when the water drops out.
Paul looping at eternity a different time
Speaking of getting skunked on playboating, it happened again yesterday when Colin and I tried to go to the Nolichucky. We were turned back by forest fires of all things! They were dunking the buckets from the helicopters in the pool at the put-in and wouldn't let anyone put on. Crazy.
Thats all for now, oh yeah when we got skunked we hiked a creek instead and found a West Prong-took-meth style creek very close to Boone. Can't wait for rain :)
PEACE!
-Clay
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