French Broad

Tuesday, 9/23/2014 had perfect fall weather and about 950 cfs. Small crew of G and CT in hard boats, Chris and JM in the maxi. It was a great level for hard boats and JM never got stuck in the maxi me. Rapids felt shallow but there were lots of great eddys and easy technical lines, not many surf spots. The pillow case rapid main line was narrow and had a tight S turn move (looked more intimidating from the top than it did from the bottom, we will do it next time), we chose to run a tighter but more straight forward slot just to the river right of the main S turn line (it went smooth). G had his first hard boat run of pillow rapid and made it look easy. G ran all the rapids in the hard boat but the swim spot and sandy bottom rapid (which chris swam out of the canoe).