Annewakee, |
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| Name | Range | Updated | Level |
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| ANNEEWAKEE CRK AT ANNEEWAKEE RD,NR DOUGLASVILLE,GA | 200 - 100000 cfs | 161d21h32m | 14 cfs (rc= -0.0 ) |
Look for Sweetwater Creek to be runing 800 cfs and rising or locally heavy rain of at least 1.25
inches.
Annewakke will drop back down to nothing in a matter of hours. The sweetwater gauge is used to
show if Annewakkee has gotten enough rain to check, but sweetwater holds water for days.
River Description:
The put-in is on Annewakee Road and there's good parking on the downstream side of the bridge.
There is a great but grabby playspot right at the putin. The creek picks up quickly and gets your
blood pumping with a few fun class 2's. Then it's flat for a bit... then the horizon line. The
first large drop is about 9 feet and reminds me of the Upper Tellico. It's a safe drop if run
left of center, look out for the "Hole of Doom" on the center-right after the main drop. It
probably wouldn't kill you but you'd probably swim out. It's easy to miss.
Next is a short class 2-3 section that runs through a power line cut. There are some great waves
here! You used to be able to drive (4x4 only!) out the power lines to this spot but thanks to
vandals the entrance has been cabled off.
Be VERY careful not to just drop over the next horizon line immediatley after the power lines,
you could get REALLY hurt. The next drop is about a 12 footer and really kicks. The river left
side is an almost certain pin. The water runs down a slide and hits a jagged rock and forms a
kind of mini Oceana with a not-so-forgiving "Thing". The left of center line has rocks at the
bottom so that's no good. The center line seems the way to go, angling to the right a bit.. Be
careful not to get sucked back into the hole at the bottom or you're swimming. The right side
could be OK but we didn't run it. The far right side is a plunge into the abyss and we didn't
know what was down there so it's still a mystery. The portage is on river right.
After the big drop there is a 1/4 mile of class 3 water with a fun double drop that's a strong
III+ at normal levels and turns into solid 4 at high flow. After this, the river takes a sharp
turn to the right and slows down for a mile or so. Then it takes a hard turn to the left and cuts
through another ridge, the action picks up here again and a few class 2's and 3's appear but
nothing like the upper section. A bit of flat water gets you to the take out on Ga 166.
This is a great run! We were very impressed. The water quality is not great but the rapids are!
As of March 2002 there were a few dead falls that needed to be carried over but no "strainers of
doom".
FYI, Sweetwater reached almost 4 feet that day after rain the night before and Annewakee was at a
comfortable level. It could certainly be done higher, but not much lower. Total rainfall for the
previous night was about 1.2 inches and it was still raining lightly when we put on at 2pm. It
will take you between 1.5 to 2.5 hours to make this run barring any epic adventures.
There is now a gauge on Annewakee. For now i'll take a guess that 200 cfs is a minimum. Add comments for updates.
| Name | Range | Updated | Level | ||||||
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| ANNEEWAKEE CRK AT ANNEEWAKEE RD,NR DOUGLASVILLE,GA | |||||||||
| usgs-02337197 | 200 - 100000 cfs | 161d21h32m | 14 cfs (rc= -0.0 ) | ||||||
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| When | River/Gauge | Subject | Level | Reporter |
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| Annewakee [ga] |
Low water
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low | Dallas Shaw | |
| Annewakee [GA] |
Usual scene on Annawakee
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-2 in. | Dallas Shaw | |
| Annewakee Creek [GA] |
PowerSLAM!
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n/a | Patrick Dortch | |
| 6y190d12h46m | Annewakee [GA] |
[0013] Level indicator at put-in
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flood | Chad Spangler |
| 7y256d12h46m | Annewake Creek [ga] |
AnneWakeup!
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4.0 | Patrick Dortch |
| 7y256d12h46m | Annewakee Creek [GA] |
Powerline Rapid
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4.0 | Patrick Dortch |
| 7y256d12h46m | Annewakee Creek [GA] |
Mike gets PowerSLAMMED!
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Sweetwater at 4 | Patrick Dortch |
No guide books for this stream. If you know of a book that describes this stream please contact and advise the StreamTeam member for this run. | Mile | Rapid Name | Class | Features (Legend) |
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| 0.0 | Put In Hole | III |    |
| 0.8 | AnneWakeup! | III |  |
| 0.9 | PowerLine | II+ | |
| 1.0 | PowerSLAM! | IV |  |
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User Comments
it's still runnable down to around -5 I think...... although that would be pretty boney.
Doable but too low to be any fun. One thing I have to add is that powerslam is definitely not 12
feet high, it is a 7-8 foot ledge. Oh and i saw the "thing" it was a large cubic piece of rock that
formed a minor sieve and has huge pinning possibilities. It would be a great run with high water.
walked up there, it's all private property on either side above the bridge. I assume you could put
in above the lake, paddle across the lake, and run the spillway but I'm not sure. If anyone finds
out, let us all know.
upstream of the put-in?
We went to hurricane. It was awesome!!!
looks even nastier at high water... certain PAIN! At that level, would you rate PowerSlam and the
following 1/4 mile section IV?
ledge above the anawakee put-in was looking really scrappy. We passed and took the 4 minute drive
back to sweetwater.
just to the right of it you could see a shallow shelf right at the base of the drop. The far right
line was plenty deep at the bottom. The hole was still grabby even at low water. The left side of
the drop has a nasty undercut/sieve rock formation that would be super nasty. I really liked the
rapid 50 yrds downstream from PowerSLAM. At lower water with only a little play it took us about 2
1/2 hours. There were about 4 or 5 deadfalls to contend with below the first mile of rapids.
pretty quickly. We paddled it today after work, and Sweetwater was close to 5.5 ft from last
night's rain, having crested just a few hours before we got on Anneewakee, yet Anneewakee was much
lower than on Patrick's run. For a correlation, I would guess that it's important that Sweetwater
is rising or that it has rained recently. If you look at the small ledge hole just upstream of the
put-in and it looks like a decent, fun hole, then the level is probably good. If it looks like a
small, shallow pourover, it's going to be pretty low. It was still a fun run, some very fun little
sticky holes here and there, but not nearly as exciting as it would be higher water.