Tuckasegee, West Fork

Hiked down the trail to the put-in today. Starts out as a dirt road then a well constructed trail starts on the right as the dirt road continues left. The well - constructed trail continues for a short distance, ending in a clearing with a bunch of trees that have been cut. The dirt road comes back in and continues for a couple of hundred feet, then turns into an unimproved (narrow, muddy, slick) trail. This continues past the first waterfall that is huge. The trail continues, eventually dropping below a set of cliffs near the top of the second waterfall. The trail then turns into a scramble among rocks, logs, and trees down the hillside until it is nearly even with the bottom of the first of the two drops in the second falls (huge, lands on rocks). The trail (if you can call it that at this point) continues down amongst the large rocks, logs, and trees into a large patch of rhododendron until it meets the river at the bottom of the second drop of the second falls. It was a difficult hike without a boat. With a boat it would be best to use a rope to lower the boat down to someone waiting below in stages. It will take a LOT of work to turn the current scramble into a trail walkable with boats.