Chattooga Sect. III, April 1, 2006

Lead a trip down from Earl's Ford to Sandy Shoals. The party was my dad, my sister Mandy, my sisters boy friend Chris and Caroline my sisters friend. When I went to put on my dry top the right arm gasket ripped glad it was a warm day (74) so I didn't realy need it. I realy don't like leading a trips down a river because I have to go first and show them the line and I can't do a more difficult line or I may mess them up, but I did do some more difficult lines. Warwoman rapid went well. Somewhere between Warwoman and Rock Garden Caroline rolled over but she rolled back up with the help of a rock. At Rock Garden I ran on the RR side of the long rock going down the middle there is a hole that isn't that bad at this lvl but at the lvl that this section gets funner I think there may be a good sized hole on that side. I usualy run RL. The next rapid is 3 Rooster Tails run RR. I caught a super small eddy on the Right side of the RL channel, they all liked this one. Went down to Dicks Creek Rapid I showed them the line on the line just off of the left side of the middle rock island there are many lines on this rapid. I boofed into the eddy and ran it again except I ran the chute line. If you go to far left you will go off the ledge and land on rock and if you go to far right you will miss the line all together. You want to run straight toward the rock tilted back upstream then bank off of it with a left stroke. After this is Sandy Shoals. The first rapid got Caroline because she was try to immitate Mandy then she was like why am I following Mandy? I hit an unseen rock and almost rolled but I did a super high brace. The rest of the rapid was shallow at this lvl. and best run on the left for the most part then cross over right for the final part. Fun day with fam. and friends. The lvl was 1.7 on the internet so somewhere near 1.5 on the bridge.