10/18/2014: Russell Fork, Haysi to Garden Hole
With: Ann Somers, Kim Buttleman, Jenny Thomas, Joey Fallin, Bill Hammill, Suzanne Wantland, Will Seeley, Joanie Lambert, GK Kinsey, Sarah Ruhlen | ||
Not sure about the volume. Flannagan gauge said 790, Haysi said 401, but I found a Bartlick gauge, which I cannot find again, that said 660. So it was either 1190 or 1450 CFS. |
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1. Pilot Mountain, on my way out of town on US-52. | ||
2. Hanging Rock, Sauratown Mountain, and Pilot Mountain (l to r) from Eight-Mile Hill (the Blue Ridge front) heading out on I-77. | ||
3. Roadside view from I-77. | ||
4. The New River, seen from I-77. | ||
5. Punkins! Many, many punkins! Seen from I-77. | ||
6. The first ledge on the upper stretch; Jenny and Kim in the foreground | ||
7. Jenny and Kim (foreground) on the rarely run upper stretch. | ||
8. Sarah Ruhlen, way up in the middle of Twenty Stitches! | ||
9. Sarah Ruhlen eddying out in Twenty Stitches! | ||
10. Kim Buttleman in Twenty Stitches! | ||
11. Jenny Thomas in Twenty Stitches! | ||
12. Kim, Jenny, and Sarah in Twenty Stitches! | ||
13. Jenny and Sarah in Twenty Stitches! | ||
14. Joey, Donna, Sarah, someone (Suzanne?), Ann & Caitlin (foreground to back) | ||
15. Sarah and Donna (foreground), Jenny in the rapid, Ann and Caitlin on the shredder. | ||
16. I don't know the name of this rapid. | ||
17. Jenny and Kim above the next-to-last rapid. | ||
18. Kim in the next-to-last rapid. | ||
19. Kim in the next-to-last rapid. | ||