{"id":15364,"date":"2013-08-09T16:07:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T16:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=15364"},"modified":"2013-08-09T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T16:09:17","slug":"spring-flings-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/spring-flings-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Flings 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
Below: Adam Goshorn on Little River Falls, photos by Pat
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Sure, spring doesn\u2019t officially begin until March 20th, but the seasonal rotation in my life doesn\u2019t exactly follow the official guidelines.\u00a0 This year, my winter was composed of back to back trips, first another raft-supported trip on the Grand Canyon and then down to the creeking paradise of Mexico for the holidays.\u00a0 My spring paddling season started almost immediately when I got back home the second week of January.\u00a0 Although rains and good water levels had returned to the southeast in December, I had been out of town for most of it, so January was the kick-off of the local creeking season for me.\u00a0 This year the good water levels that started in December didn\u2019t let up until throughout the whole spring.\u00a0 So many good times on good runs with good friends\u2026 I\u2019ll let the pictures share the rest of the story.<\/p>\n

Below: Adam Goshorn on Little River Canyon, photos by Jay
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Below: Matt Taylor on Little River Falls, photos by Adam
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Below: Matt Taylor entering Asleep At The Wheel on AllenCreek,
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Below: Matt Jones catching a huge boof in Asleep
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Below: Pat Smith exiting Asleep At The Wheel, photo by Adam
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Below: Matt Jones on the West Fork of the Little River,
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Below: Jesse Carter running Eye Of The Needle on Jones
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Below: Matt Taylor running Bow Down on Jones Creek, Photo by
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One weekend late in the spring my friend John and I drove up to the Russell Fork after work on a Thursday, planning to spend a 3-day weekend paddling the gorge.\u00a0 However, after arriving at 1:00 AM and sleeping in the car in the pouring rain all night, we awoke to find the Russell Fork Gorge too high and our plans ruined.\u00a0 However, with lots of water in the area we salvaged the weekend into an awesome time and ended up doing four different runs in three different states over the course of the weekend!\u00a0 Here are some of the best shots that resulted from that weekend.<\/p>\n

Below: Travis Overstreet single-blading the Kettles, photo
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Below: Adam Goshorn on the Kettles, photo by
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Below: Jeff Greenough finishing the mandatory portage, photo
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Below: Forrest Fewster on Crash Test Dummy,
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Below: Adam Goshorn on Crash Test Dummy, photo by John Kern<\/div>\n
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Below: John Kern on North-South, photo by Adam Goshorn<\/div>\n
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Below: Forrest Fewster entering Two Blind Mice, photos by
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Below: Chris Fewster finishing Two Blind Mice, photo by Adam
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Another one of my favorite days this spring was a day when a crew of six of us paddled Upper Teddy Bear into Lower Teddy Bear into the Chairlift section of Little River Canyon, taking out at CanyonMouthPark.\u00a0 This Bear Creek is known as “Teddy Bear” to avoid confusion with the more difficult creek by the same\u00a0name further north on LookoutMountain.\u00a0 This Bear Creek may be easier, but offers a much longer runnable section and getting to paddle out on Little River Canyon at about 9,000 CFS was just the icing on the cake of already great day.\u00a0 Most of the time\u00a0paddlers either\u00a0run the Upper Teddy Bear or the Lower Teddy Bear, but not both.\u00a0 Typically if\u00a0the water\u00a0is high enough for the upper section, the lower section is too high… and if it is low enough for the lower, the upper is typically too low.\u00a0 However, there is a perfect level (around 12″ on the gauge\u00a0at the lower put-in) where the upper isn’t too low and the lower is on the high side of runnabality, but still manageable.\u00a0 For\u00a0those who find themselves there at this perfect level, the result is one of the best runs around as paddlers are able to put in at the top of the mountain and drop around 1000 feet of gradient, over\u00a013 miles\u00a0through three distinct sections that all have their own character.\u00a0 The upper is a tiny stream with big bedrock slides, the lower is pushy river running (somewhat similar to the Tallulah at 700+, minus Oceana), and the paddle out on the Chairlift section of Little River Canyon is big water fun with grand-canyon sized wavetrains!\u00a0 It was raining all day so I didn’t take any pictures of video, but John Kern put together\u00a0a nice video from the footage he took on his GoPro, which can be seen HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Until Next Time\u2026<\/p>\n

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Adam Goshorn<\/p>\n

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Below: Adam Goshorn on JohnniesCreek, photos by Jay Howard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Below: Adam Goshorn on Little River Falls, photos by Pat Smith Sure, spring doesn\u2019t officially begin until March 20th, but the seasonal rotation in my life doesn\u2019t exactly follow the official guidelines.\u00a0 This year, my winter was composed of back to back trips, first another raft-supported trip on the Grand Canyon and then down to … <\/p>\n

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