Lost Cove Creek, NC

Hunt Fish Bottom Drop

Hunt Fish Bottom Drop
Photo of Chris McFadden by Beau Van Note taken 9/17/04 @ 1.5

River Description

Pristine Wilderness Creeking!

Trail 464A is over a 2 mile hike-in and permits you to run the entire 5+ miles or so.  This upper section is mainly technical boulder gardens with many strainers.  2.5 miles in is a steeper section less than 1 mile in length that starts with Hunt Fish Falls (Class IV+/V-) and culminates with Air Baker.  Hike back up the MTS trail (TR262) and huck it again.  Nice hike & huck!

If you want a shorter hike-in, less strainers, and get right to the hike & huck you should use down Trail TR263 (Hunt Fish Falls trail) to trail TR262 and put-in a drop or 2 above Hunt Fish Falls.  There are strainers in the class II/II paddle out -  but at last check in February 2008 only 2 required portages at low water.

Watch the water level because you don't want to run the 2 miles class II/III paddle out at low water.  Very beautiful, with many "Lost Coves" along the way.  You may bump into boaters coming down from their Dragstrip induced adrenaline rush.  If so, too bad you missed out on Gragg Prong (GP) which has a much smaller watershed/window than LCC.

From this point just cardio it down to the bridge by Wilson Creek.

Please send visuals, and the date and time of your trips with a comment about the level to wilsonvizual@yahoo.com (L,M,H,VH...) Thanks!