Chattooga

II- Highway 28 to Earl's Ford

II (II+)

5.7 miles

15 fpm

III- Earl's Ford to US 76

II-III+ (IV)

12 miles

25 fpm

Alt. Put-in/Take-out:

1. Sandy Ford-mile #3, nice trail

2. Blue Tag Trail- mile #6, maybe, ruged steep trail, hard to spot, look for blue trail markers on SC side, but takes out the Duldrums section

3. Fall Creek- mile #8

4. Thrifts Ferry- mile #11, nice trail

IV- US 76 to Lake Tugaloo Boat Ramp

II-IV+

6.3 miles

50 fpm

Alt. Put-in/Take-out:

1. Woodall Shoals- mile #2, nice short trail

2. Camp Creek- mile #5, GA side

Rapids:

1. Bull Sluice- IV; Put-in at the eddy and either take the double drop, ns, middle drop, just follow the tongue of water down the middle and boof, or left drop, ns, depending on water level.

2. Surf Rapid- III; Head straight down the river right side, into the hole and swirly water at the bottom. There is a good hole at the bottom for enders and stuff, with a good river right eddy.

3. Screaming Left Turn- III; Start in the middle and then head to the middle right to catch and eddy behind a rock from there peal out and go over the first hole then bank off the pillow to the left end off the rapid on the left. There is a slot just left of the main line that goes under an undercut, its kinda a boof line that you boof off the rock to the right with the undercut rock on the left. There is also a small boof at the bottom left of the drop.

3. Rock Jumble- III;A slide that can be run down the middle, but at low water that line is full of little piton points. Another line is the Watauga Route on the left which is a double drop which you enter just to the left of the rock that splits the flow and head to the left to finish off the drop.

4. Woodall Shoals- IV; With a V+ keeper hole the middle at levels about 1.3 and up. The usual line is far river right in which you can set up in an eddy in the upper left side of the drop to make the ride go smoothly down a small chute that you may slightly piton into if you just run straight down the drop. The middle line is safe about 1.3 and below in which there is a few lines you can hit a middle right eddy just above the drop then slide down the right side, or make a hairy ferry over to the left to the rooster tail. You can also just skip the eddy and just go straight for the drop. There is another good sized hole called Bob's hole which is in the middle of boogie water down to the bottom this hole can get sticky at higher water levels. There is also a left line but that only opens up at around 3ft. Portage left.

5. Seven Foot Falls- IV; There is some good sized holes/waves leading up to here. After the last hole you can catch and eddy on the left, then ferry over to the right to boof the rock on the right. Have some right angle so you dont run into the river left wall the river runs into. There is also a river right line but it doesn't seem very fun and has a tree in it I think.

6. Stekoa Creek Slide- III+; A fun slide just after Stekoa Creek comes in. Here is where the Chattooga looses its Wild and Scenic River rank, because of the nasty water coming in on river right. The side is on river right you can either boof right/straight to get into the eddy on right, or boof left into a little shoot between the rocks (raft trap)

7. Long Creek Falls Rapid- III; Beutifull falls on the left.

8.Deliverance Rock- III+; Start right and head to the left. This is the spot where you see a person's hand from Deliverance slip under a rock.

9.Turtle Head Rock- II+; Look back after the rapid and you can see a turtle's head in of the rocks.

10.Raven Chute- III+; A fun little slide/chute on river left that crosses over to the middle. There is also a middle and right line that open up at higher water levels. There is a massive rock wall on river left just past this rapid.

11.Little Woodall- III+;The main line on right. A good sized hole in the middle line, there is also a small little slot that you can run on the left.

12.Camp Creek- Start of the Five Falls section.

13.Entrance- IV; The main line is on the right in which you slide down a left angled slide. There is also a middle line in which you use the finger rock on the middle left to boof, make sure you get a fairly strong right hand boof stroke so you do not hit the rock at the bottom of the drop.

14.Corkscrew- IV+;At low water catch and eddy on right the right and then ferry to left boof off of the left rock making sure not to hit a piece of rock that sticks up finish middle. A clearer middle line at higher water. A twisted ride to the bottom in the middle, there are some sharp rocks that can mess with you at low water. If you don't want to run the whole rapid you can portage the first half on right then slide into an eddy and run the last hole of the rapid. Portage right.

15.Crack in the Rock- IV; There are quite a few different lines on this rapids a different levels, but most of them are fairly dangerous. The safest line is in the threw the middle crack. Portage Right.

16.Jawbone- IV+; This rapid can be fairly easy, but the Hydroelectric rock at the bottom makes it dangerous. Start on the right then punch into the eddy on left. From there you can either leave at the top of the eddy or at the bottom of the eddy down a small slide. Watch out for Decap rock on the right. There is fast moving water downstream of here, stay left and left of Hydroelectic rock to finish the rapid. Portage left.

Sock 'em Dog- IV+; Run on right usualy trying to hit the launch pad if it is submerged and if not run just the left of the pad. There is also a sneak when the water is higher on left.

Shoulderbone- IV; At low water run on left to an eddy on left turn around and head back to the right. At higher just run left or you can run the socket on right.

Lake Tugaloo

1.58 bridge
1.67 internet
3.11.07- toaster slot on Screaming Left, Fun boof on Rock Jumble off of the right side of the center rock (drive across the curler), Fun boogie leading up to 7 foot, middle line on entrance, right crack, stout hole to punch to get into the eddy at jawbone, 3 x on sock'em dog, 2 good boof, 1 melt down to the left into a backflip in the hole but washed me out. Fun day.
Video

1.65 bridge
1.81 internet
1.20.07- Bull to woodall It was a lot of fun lots of good little pocket holes for spinning, toaster slot on Screaming Left was tight but fun. Rockjumbles watauga route I should've drove harder left. Bobs hole on woodall looked fairly sticky, a must boof.