Elk

Another comment from an old-timer. Jim Reed, Roger Beaman, Bill Hughes and I ran it on May 18, 1985. I know the date because I wrote a trip report for the CCC (The Paddler, Vol. 14, No. 3, June 1985). But I don’t think we were the first. I heard a group from Greensboro ran it before we did. We didn’t run Big Falls or Compression Falls, but we ran everything else between Big and Compression except (of course) the first drop of Twisting Falls. Ran it twice more in the late 80s before moving west. On one of those trips, everyone backendered at the base of the 16 footer just above Compression. Good roll practice!