Rocky Broad

From Canoeman on Boatertalk:

My first time on the Rocky Broad! (TR, very long.) New

Forum: BoaterTalk

Date: Oct 04 2004, 17:30 GMT

From: canoeman

Fortunate as I am to work in Hendersonville, N.C., center of the Southeastern paddling universe, there are two runs within 20 minutes of my office that I have avoided. One is the Narrows, which I still don't have any plans to run. The other was, until yesterday, the Rocky Broad.

Actually, the RB has been on my to-do list for years, along with the Watauga. And as a new dad of a baby girl, now a toddler, close-to-home runs are at a premium for me. So in addition to my favorite creek, the North Fork of the French Broad, I have started looking at the West Fork and the Upper Rocky Broad.

Unfortunately, the Upper was too low to run this weekend. But I got over the mental hump about running the Lower. So I called my friend Will (Slave2H2O) and asked him if he would be willing to lead a few newbies down. That would be me and my friend Stephen, a C-boater, and another very hard core open boater I have recently started paddling with, Pat.

Thanks to Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, I have gotten in a half dozen runs on the North Fork in September in both canoe and C-1 and was primed for something new. Also I ran the Upper Davidson earlier in the month with my friend Doug Bonnoitt. When Doug said he had done the Rocky Broad three or four times and loved it, I thought, that's it