I painted a paddler's gage on the new Hwy 441 south bound bridge over Stekoa on 7/14/07. To see it, you'll need to park on Rickman Airfield Road, carefully cross 441 to the median between the north and south bound bridges. The gage is on the South bound bridge river right, downstream pilon. Please report your levels and low, medium and high info so we can dial this gage in and develop a correlation. E-mail info to me at h2olevelcheck@hotmail.com. -- Thanx -- Rob Maxwell

We hiked up this from the chattooga on Sunday May 2, 2004. It was a pretty good medium level. The chattooga was only about 1.7 (it had just rained the night before). But the last mile or so into the chattooga is non-stop class 5. The entire section we looked at had undercuts, sieves, caves and potholes everywhere and there were very small pools in between the drops. You can hike/wade/climb up the creek on the river right side but it isn’t easy. The water quality is really nasty<br /> <br /> The drops in order that you would kayak down them are:<br /> <br /> 1. A 5 foot drop, that looked clean (didn’t get a good look)<br /> 2. A 15 foot drop that is backcut and lands on a rock on the right side, and has a log in the river about 8 feet downstream. It had an undercut wall on the left side of the landing zone. (probably a portage)<br /> 3. A 15-20 foot slide/drop, where you had to land within a 4 foot wide slot, or you would get shoved into an undercut on the right or an undercut cave with no way out on the left (which is where a lot of water went). It was really sketch (portage).<br /> 4. a clean 6 foot ledge<br /> 6. another clean 6 foot ledge<br /> 7. a 20 foot rocky slide with a huge undercut/sieve/cave blocking the entire left side of the river at the bottom. (this is the slide that can be seen from the chattooga)<br /> well I would like to see which of the two ones that I think would be portages have been run. And we need some pictures of them on here.

I have run this whenthe Chattooga was 2 feet and would warn against rushing to jump on the creek at extreamly high water. Several Southeastern Guides said 1.9 on the Chattooga was a good minimum. At levels near 3 feet or higher you could easily not be able to stop at the big rapids and find yourself as a greasy spot on some rocks at the bottom of the big waterfall.