Saturday, February 11, 2006

Little River (French Broad trib.) PFD and Scouted Davidson and Looking Glass Dec. 3, 2005



I hiked up to the base of triple falls and went from there. One rapid above Rail Slide caught me off guard becuase a whirlpool kinda thing. Rail Slide, class III, is an odd shaped slide on far RR is a flume and while sliding there is a little ledge 2-3 feet to the left. Drop off this ledge when nearing the end of the flume.
The next rapid sizeable rapid is Schiqoprenia, class IV, this is a pretty tight rock garden which i ran on RR then to a lil 3 ft. boof on middle right then finished on RR again. There is another small rock garden right before the bridge which is floated on RL to not leave plastic on the rocks. I usualy gage the run by the rock that can be a little 3 ft boof just right of the main channel. There is a quater mile of class I-II boogie until hooker, class IV which is a 15 footer it is realy hard to see the horizon line of this drop this drop should be run RL of middle left because theres a rock on RR or middle right which could break your back.

I checked out davidson river which is super tight and creeky non stop boulder gardeny stuff with some bedrock but needs some water.

Looking Glass looks fun and tight it may beable to be done at low water because it looks bedrockish but i am not realy sure because i did not see the rest of the run.

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