This past weekend brought another exciting weekend for plateau creekin'. After watching it rain all day at work Friday, I headed to Island Creek in the Obed Wild & Scenic River area for a late run. Myself, Anton, Tera, Tony Robinson, and Jim met for a 6pm run with the flow being around 0.5ft on the bridge gauge. It was an excellent fun run and we almost went for a second run but it was so close to dark we decided otherwise.
Saturday brought more action. Myself, Anton, Tera, and Jim all headed to the Tiny Piney. This was a personal first descent for everyone in the group. With the White's Creek gauge at Hwy 27 reading less than 2ft, we ran it with plenty of water. We all fired up the run's 2 class IV drops; Stairstep and Baby Gorilla. Just below Baby Gorilla is a rapid that has unsuspecting undercut-sieves. Jim had an exciting moment there with the guidance of Anton but all turned out well. The rest of the run was beautiful with cascading waterfalls dropping off the gorge walls into the river. It is one of the prettiest plateau runs I've ever done. At 11 miles long, we knew we would be on the river for a while but with good current we finished it in less than 5 hours.
After getting off the Tiny Piney, we decided to head to Wartburg to run Little Clear Creek. We put on around 6pm with the flow being on the upper end of low. We all had great lines and were tired since after both runs, we had paddled 14 miles in one day.
Sunday morning, I had to work and hadn't planned to go boating. But Tom Rennalls called and said a group was going to Ramsey's and the Greenbriar. After doing what I needed to do at work, I got my boat and head to the Smoky's to find Tom, Doug, Mary Ann, and others at the Greenbriar getting ready to start their second run. By this time it was after 3pm and I suited up to finish a 3 day weekend of boating.
Till next time, keep praying for rain because it appears to be working.
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