Chauga River and Ramsey Falls (Chauram Park), May 21, 2006

Hiked up to the starting of Entrance Rapid (II) ran that down the middle with a right turn at the end to miss a slitely undercut rock. Decided to run the Right Line at Pumphouse (III). This line is severely undercut on the Left and about 66% of the water goes into the undercut. It has a nice 3 Ft boof onto another drop that drops about 2 Ft more. The total drop is about 7ft. I have never run this rapid because of the pumphouse that sucks up rapid and scary looking trees around the pumphouse ) :. I did a roll at the sandy beach then headed down to the next rapid which I caught as many eddies possible on it. Can Opener (III) has 3 lines, the Left Line (slot) which can pinch pin boats, the Far Right Line a slide into a small boof, and the Middle Line (left of Can opener rock and right next to the boulder in the middle of the river). Both My dad and I both took the middle line with no consequences. Below here there is a great place to practice ferries with eddies on both sides and a very strong current in the middle. I ran Can Opener again. Then hiked up and did Pumphouse 2 more times.
I also looked at Ramsey Falls which may have a line going down the only flow at first then cut River Right into a small constricted drop with a shallow landing and no good place to boof off, then off the largest drop which may have a shallow landing two but a better place to boof.

The Chauga was at -7 at the gage in the park
The Chattooga was at 1.4 at the internet gage