Route: Chalk Banks to Cypress Bend Winery (access by special permission). This started and ended as a great day on the river with kayak paddlers and staff from Lake Rim Park in Fayetteville (9 people total). However, when we got about ¼ mile south of US-401 ( Raeford Rd) we ran into a huge clearcut on the west bank. This goes on for 0.9 miles as the crow flies or at least 1.25 miles on the river. Google Earth imagery shows this as being cut about March of 2018.
River: Rocky (Cape Fear River Basin)
Section: Pittsboro-Goldston Road (Chatham County 1010) to Chatham Church Road (Chatham County 1953)
Length: 4.4 miles
Paddlers: Paul Ferguson, OC-1; Bob Brueckner, K-1
Date: Dec. 18, 2018
Level: About 200 cfs when you add USGS gauges at Tick Creek (113 cfs) and Siler City (20.7 cfs) to several perennial and intermittent creeks
By Bob Brueckner
What a difference a dam can make, or rather the lack of one.
Nice day on the water among CCC friends and we may have even seen the birth of another addict to the sport.
We had 1 novice, couple intermediates, and some advanced paddlers along with a couple instructors and an instructor educator. Hmm, great opportunity for some newer paddlers. Decent weather and good conditions for a better than average wave shape for surfing (pool level around 19.3' with flow of 2600cfs).
In all of my years of paddling, I've never run the Dan through Kibler Valley. I'm not sure why I haven't ever made this trip before. The river is a scenic, narrow, scrapy but fun run at a 7000KW release from the Power House. For my 1st D I had assembled a crew of Donna Murphy, Greg Murphy, and Rick Higgins along with a crew from the Smith River Valley paddlers. Rick and I met at the REI in Durham and made the trip up to Kibler to meet up with Donna and Greg. We ran two laps with Greg and Donna showing me some fun moves up and down the river.
April 21 WNC Trip: Pigeon + Ocoee
There are still openings for the April 9 – 15 week of this activity (the last week it will occur this year). If you miss it this year, there will be three weeks of this trip on 2018. Contact Kirk at one of the links below to enquire about participating.
By Leon Pfeiffer
Seth Bosman, Len Prosnitz, Riley Pfeiffer and I set out on a three-day trip to Western NC to get wet. We ended up with three trips down the Pigeon and one on the Nanty before we left to return on Saturday, July 30.
By Leon Pfeiffer
Seth Bosman, Len Prosnitz, Riley Pfeiffer and I set out on a three-day trip to Western NC to get wet. We ended up with three trips down the Pigeon and one on the Nanty before we left to return on Saturday, July 30.
The fifth annual Families Paddle, Too was a big success! Based on Hot dog count we had around 100 folks at the event. Weather was great all weekend and no injuries were reported.
Lee Martin and Lara met me at the put in for the first lap. There might have been six boaters in front of us when Lee and I put on Saturday morning. It was a fun lap. I think Lee had a quick flip and roll but otherwise a dry hair run with no sneaks. The afternoon lap was spent helping POC recover swimmers and gear. Sunday temps dropped and reduced the number of boaters. The morning lap was quite chilly for spring.
