Black Creek (Lehigh trib.)

I found out the hard way that legal State navigability doesn't necessarily make you foolproof if a landowner decides to block your run...The landowner ordered me off the river by shouting then shooting at me (Amherst Co, Va.) and blasted several bullet holes in my boat--within inches of me--while I was running a class 3 rapid near the bridge takeout...The sheriff (his cousin) arrested me for trespassing and the judge (another cousin) threw out the case (knowing I would appeal to State Court citing the logic of 'sheep grazing in cattle country.' AWA told me they would support my case. What a crock! That was 20 years ago and I'm still waiting for a replacement Dagger canoe...
le scott, Carolina Canoe Club