South

GA 81 to Snapping Shoals Creek

February 7, 2008

Trip Report

ReporterTommy Mode

My friends and I love that sweet brown water of the 'DirtySouth' , we just can't get enough of that brown stuff .Yeah we made several runs again on 2-2-08 Mark Savell, Kyle Blanset, and myself. I am still trying to figure out the gauge since it is 31 miles upstream @ Klondike Rd. and two creeks with considerable amounts of flow dump into the South River downstream of the gauge (Big Cotton Indian and Walnut). With that said I would guess the flow would have been around 2600 cfs since the gauge peaked @ 2000 cfs 31 miles upstream 18hrs earlier and a conservative guess of 600 cfs for the additional flow of the two creeks downstream of the gauge (no math was used in this guess) At higher flows (2000+) a center channel opens and is a safer option than river left and if you choose to go down the right side watch for wood and hold on .