Abrams Creek

July 4th weekend of 2013 saw unusually high water levels here and there across Tennessee & NC. However, the Little River and Abrams Creek, and also Tellico, watersheds missed the rain seen just about everywhere else. Today, at 3.1 feet on the Little River at Townsend gauge Lower Abrams was runnable, but unlike a previous trip I was scraping rocks every now and again. We saw some strainers, but the significant ones were all in the first 1.5 miles or so. The first one was about .3 miles below the putin and was a mandantory portage. The others, in our kayaks, we were able to sneak past or weasel through.