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1. Dries: Turtletown Creek to Apalachia Powerhouse (Dries)

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May 21, 2003

Trip Report

ReporterWill Reeves

At 1000 cfs this was a fun run (1000 cfs in the river is 3000 cfs from the dam). All in all it was easier than the Ocoee with fewer rapids and had plenty of trees. The rapids were not huge and certainly had nothing of Gauly stature or even resembled the Grand Canyon. I thought it was a fun class III run with some alternate class IV lines in certain drops. I agree with the posting that this is a one or twice in a boating career run, because other things are running. I have seen this run with water in it probably 6-12 times in a decade plus boating career.