New Hope Creek (Haw River trib.)

Just got off the NHC. It was a high flow run. What a GREAT little run. It's about 4 Miles or so and took @2.5 hours at this flow without straggling. You do need to pay attention to the strainers, there is a certain amount of wood, but not so much that it caused problems. There are 2 unavoidable portages where trees cross the river, but they are easily seen with easy eddies and accessible banks. They only caused a 5 min delay each. This is a creek with a lot of blind bends and turns. Each turn seemed to be accompanied by the next small rapid most all of them class 2. This provides for some fairly continuous paddling and limited flat water. There is one honest to goodness class three. About half to two thirds of the way down you first come to a hard left turn followed hard right turn. The second rapid (the hard right) should be scouted. There are strainers and you can