Water level 2.01 ft. Paddlers Lisa Haskell, Mike Thompson, and Jim Tebbel. This is an easy section of the Chattooga. It is a good bit more narrow above the confluence with the North Fork, about the width of the narrower parts of the Cartecay. At this level it is flat,...
On January 16, 2016 we held our 5th annual Nantahala Ice Breaker! From it's humble beginnings when Jimmy Jones organized a small group that included Randy Barfield, Tony Butler, Josh Howell, Brian Paradis, Chad Copeland and Josh Purvis to eventually grow into what we...
On May 16-18, the Georgia Conservancy, with the help of the Georgia Canoeing Association, led a 65-person paddling adventure on one of Georgia's most beautiful and ecologically-diverse rivers - the Ogeechee! The weekend concluded with a Sunday ferry ride to Ossabaw...
It all began with a simple posting in our local Central Georgia River Network Facebook group that Bryan Bonner is off on Tuesdays after 12 and if anyone could work in a paddle that would be good. After a few replies and messages, we decided to do the Flint River....
The Chattooga 3.5 trip co-lead by Samantha and Jeremy Thompson and myself was just one of those perfect days on the river. What makes this trip stand out amongst countless other 3.5 trips? Group dynamics, I think. We had t he best group: Tom Bishop, Pauline Thynne,...
Kevin McInturff and I began our trip just below the 20-foot Dicks Creek Falls on 3-3-2012. It had rained 2 1/3 inches on the Chestatee gauge since late the previous night and three inches in the past three days. In my exploration trip 12/11/83 we had put in 2 miles...
It was a dark and stormy night. No, wait, wrong story. Sorry, let's try this again. It was a bright and sunny morning when we set off on the Manatee Paddle. Brannen coordinated the Friday paddle of the Chassahowitzka and I was excited to join him since I'd never...
Fall Follies on the Coosa RiverOctober 30, 2011A group of us decided to paddle the Coosa last Sunday, and since this is one of my favorite rivers I thought it would be cool to post it on both the GCA list serve as well as the BCC. The Coosa River, locatedjust north of...
