Eastatoe Creek -1

Takes a lot of water. When we did it, the chattooga 3 feet and went to 5. Rosman was at 1500 and hit 3000 before the day was over, cullasaja went over 8 feet.

We were still lacking water. Figure if you can float under the right channel of the put-in bridge without scrapping then it will be do-able. Or if the bridge at the takeout has the only one railroad tie stair showing. If you see both ties, its low.

Lots of trees and logs down. We probably had to get out of the boats 10 times to carry over various pieces of wood. Two good rapids were unrunnable due to strainers.

Still there were 4 good falls. Some good sliding drops. A smaller version of something that looked like singleys off overflow.. There were a bunch or nice long slides. Most of the run is over bedrock. There are some streamside undercuts to be careful when you are near them. There was one funky 4 foot ledge with a strong hole, the hole pulled one boat back up under the ledge a few feet, it was a strange undercut.

There was also a lot of good boogie water.

The mandatory portage is a bitch. We carried on river right. River left looked better after we were about halfway into it. Took us about 30 minutes to move 3 boats and bodies around the portage. The falls after the portage is the best on the river.