5/15/2011: Tellico R., White Bridge to Oosterneck pullout (Middle)
| With: Mick Schlotfeldt, David Bernard, Lee Belknap, Dan Bertko, Ernie Katz, David Hafera, Karen Egbert, Jon Hitchings, Larry Parmer, David Vezzetti, Mikel Wellman, Marilyn Jones, Liz Bergen | ||
| This is one of everyone's favorites and is usually runnable this time of year. This year I scheduled it for our first boating day because, absent a good rain, it was going to be too low to boat later in the week. As it was, it was very, very low. I have boated it as low as 1.1', but at 1.23' (about 150 CFS) it was loaded with pinning potential while there was still some force to the water, and we had two very bad pins. The first was a two-point pin of a kayaker who had the presence of mind to refrain from pulling the skirt until we had a rope on the paddler to ensure a safe exit. It then took nearly an hour, with ropes on each end and the middle of the boat all pulling in slightly different directions to get each end out from under its respective rock, to recover the boat. There's a happy kayaker who had a recovered boat with which to finish out the week! The other pin was in a slot in the rocks only 5 or 6 feet above the known undercut (which has killed) known as Reeder's Rock, where the paddler climbed out onto a slippery rock in fast current before the canoe subbed out and then washed downstream. This is not a difficult rapid at higher levels, but I strongly recommend against running it this low. We had broken camp before boating, but spent a lot longer than planned on the river, so on the way to our next campground, Georgia's Tallulah Falls State Park, which closes its gates at 10:00 PM, we had a fast-food dinner at the Wendy's in Murphy, NC. | ||
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| 1. Jon and Karen in the second rapid on the Tellico River | ||
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| 2. Dan Bertko in the second rapid on the Tellico River | ||
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| 3. Karen Egbert on the Tellico River | ||
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| 4. Larry Parmer on the Tellico River | ||
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| 5. Mick Schlotfeldt on the Tellico River | ||
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| 6. Ernie Katz on the Tellico River | ||
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| 7. David Vezzetti on the Tellico River | ||
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| 8. Richard Hopley at BoB (Bounce-off Boulder) on the Tellico River | ||
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| 9. Richard Hopley at BoB (Bounce-off Boulder) on the Tellico River | ||
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| 10. Someone at Bounce-off Boulder on the Tellico River | ||
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| 11. Someone at Bounce-off Boulder on the Tellico River | ||
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| 12. Dan Bertko at Bounce-off Boulder on the Tellico River | ||
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| 13. Someone on the Tellico River | ||
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| 14. Larry Parmer on the Tellico River | ||
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| 15. Jon Hitchings on the Tellico River | ||
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| 16. Karen Egbert on the Tellico River | ||
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| 17. David Vezzetti on the Tellico River | ||
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| 18. Dan Bertko on the Tellico River | ||
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| 19. Ernie Katz on the Tellico River | ||
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| 20. Ernie Katz on the Tellico River | ||
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| 21. Dan Bertko on the Tellico River | ||
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| 22. David Hafera on the Tellico River | ||
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| 23. Someone on the Tellico River | ||
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| 24. David Vezzetti on the Tellico River | ||
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| 25. Karen Egbert on the Tellico River | ||
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| 26. Larry Parmer on the Tellico River | ||
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| 27. The Tellico River | ||
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| 28. Dan Bertko on the Tellico River | ||
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| 29. Mick Schlotfeldt on the Tellico River | ||
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| 30. David Vezzetti on the Tellico River | ||
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| 31. Dan Bertko on the Tellico River | ||
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| 32. Karen Egbert on the Tellico River | ||
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| 33. Lee Belknap on the Tellico River | ||
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| 34. Larry Parmer on the Tellico River | ||
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| 35. Mick Schlotfeldt on the Tellico River | ||
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| 36. Ernie Katz on the Tellico River | ||
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| 37. Someone on the Tellico River | ||
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| 38. David Hafera on the Tellico River | ||
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| 39. David Vezzetti on the Tellico River | ||
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| 40. Karen's boat, badly pinned on the Tellico River | ||
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| 41. Karen's boat, badly pinned on the Tellico River | ||
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| 42. Karen's boat, unpinned, on the Tellico River | ||
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| 43. Lee Belknap and David Vezzetti on the Tellico River | ||
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| 44. Dan Bertko and David Vezzetti on the Tellico River | ||
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| 45. David Hafera on the Tellico River | ||
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| 46. David Vezzetti on the Tellico River | ||
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| 47. Ernie Katz on the Tellico River | ||
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| 48. Karen Egbert on the Tellico River | ||
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| 49. David Vezzetti on the Tellico River | ||
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| 50. David Hafera on the Tellico River | ||