2008 Paddling Trips

 

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Index for 2008

Overflow Creek, 2.4.08

Little River Canyon, 2.9.08

Overflow Creek, 3.5.08

West Fork French Broad, 3.5.08

 

Overflow Creek, 2.4.08 1.3 dropping to 0.9 feet (actually more likely 1.1 dropping to 0.8 due to tree in front of gauge)

Put-in rapid.

Happy camper

Hunter Creekmore in Gravity.

Allen Ligon in Marginal Monster.

 

Little River Canyon, 2.9.08, 4 inches.

Terminal eddy

Hunter Creekmore

Newton

Avalanche

Pinball

Note the blown skirt which led to a few frantic moments.

Hunter in Pinball

Sean Thompson

Sean

Ashley Young flys over Roadblock

Hunter

Ashley in last drop of Humpty Dumpty

Aptly named Deep Throat

Going down...

 

Overflow Creek, 3.5.08 1.1 feet, felt like 1.3 feet. Start of our DIDFW TVF tally.

Newton Tilson in Blind Falls

Doug Benton

Newton in Gravity

Brian ? in Singley's Falls

Chuck Armentrout

Doug approaching Twilight

Doug boofing over the flake rock. Over or off the left side of the flake are the preferred routes.

Chuck on the Bump.

Chuck tempting fate in Marginal.

Drop below Marginal.

Once in a while a great shot comes along, Brian in Pinball.

Chuck demonstrating the namesake of Pinball.

Looking for Plan B.

Plan B, Chuck emerged unscathed but fuming, took awhile to calm him down again.

 

 

West Fork French Broad, 3.5.08  Good flow, Rosman @ ~800 cfs.

Josh in the first slide.

Someone (Josh?) in the second slide.

Josh in the third slide with dusk settling in.

I tried to blind em with the flash to make the third slide a little more challenging.

Hunter Creekmore gets some air.

Noah flies by.

 

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