Southeastern backpacking, camping, climbing, hiking and snowboarding.
Posted in Paddling on Nov 22nd, 2009
A couple of months ago I took my father on his first official kayaking trip. I wanted to do a shorter trip and stick as close to home as possible so I figured we’d give the Etowah River a try. I assumed it wouldn’t be the best leg of the river being so close into [...]
Posted in Camping, Events in the Southeast, Paddling on Sep 21st, 2009
A few weeks ago we paddled down about 23 miles of the Toccoa River in North Georgia. It was a little challenging to navigate the low levels. When we went I think the levels were around the 230-280 cfs range so there was plenty of bottom scrubbing going on in certain areas but [...]
Posted in Paddling on Aug 11th, 2009
My brother-in-law and I couldn’t wait until it was completely full to get out on the Hickory Log Creek Reservoir so this last spring we loaded up the kayak, looked for a spot (which was more difficult than anticipated) and put-in for our first official outing on Canton’s newest body of water. We spent a [...]
Posted in Outdoor Gear, Paddling on Dec 23rd, 2007
We headed back up to the Ocoee River recently but I forgot my camera so I have included a couple from a previous trip. The Ocoee was the site of the 1996 Summer Olympic Canoe/Kayaking Slalom Course. I actually enjoyed it even more in many ways before the Olympic team got their hands on it [...]
