Tuesday, February 19, 2008

linville gorge

I missed the rain a few weeks ago due to a new job and a bad case of the flu. Yesterday, I made up for it with a fantastic run down my second favorite river-Linville. My all time favorite is the Russell Fork. We arrived at Babel Tower to find the river at 2.4, a great first time level for former C1 rodeo champ Brian Miller. Spencer wanted to shoot some video, so we took our time.


This is death penalty, and the portage around it. It's marginably runnable at high water.
Riley avoiding a nasty sieve at the first drop of Hallway (aka Jailhouse).
Dr. Seuss has a high beatdown potential.
Today we longboated the Nolichucky at 1700 cfs, a prime level. Hopefully this rain will keep up. There is more in the forecast for later in the week.

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