Mossy Creek

Ran mossy yesterday 1/3/22 @6800 cfs and dropping on the hooch gauge. It rained quite a bit the night before. This was our first time out there. I probably wouldn't go out here any lower, but it was still plenty of fun. Water quality is about as bad as short creek AL. FYI large riverwide strainer in the first quarter mile. Not a hazard at this level.

Beast of a rapid at flows over 9,000 cfs. This photo was taken by Cas Taylor around 7,500 cfs

This article is a home run, pure and silmpe!!!

UPDATE RE. CONFLUENCE TAKE-OUT

The concrete pillar at the turn onto the dirt road has been updated with a new (and much more readable) name: Homeplace Road. Due to new construction in the area, it looks more than ever like a driveway but goes jsut about exactly one mile to the DNR cul-de-sac/parking area. Good news is that the road has been recently maintained: bad news is that appears to be due to anticipated new construction along the road. No Trespassing signs abound along the road.

From intersection of Skitts Mountail Road and Skitts Mountain Drive (.2 miles south of hall/White County line), Homeplace Road is .6 miles east on Skitts Mountain Drive (past the intersection where Callus Mill Road goes left and Morrison Road goes right).

If you want to walk down to Mossy Creek at the confluence, follow the road/path that is at about 11:00 o'clock when you enter the gravel cul-de-sac/parking area. The path up the hill that passes the DNR sign (which says permits are required)pretty much disappears over the top of the hill, well short of the creek.

This tree could be a real killer. Be careful.

Last rapid on Mossy. Stay out of the left undercut

The biggest slide on Mossy. The top move is nearly vertical with a very shallow landing zone. There is a second tier in the bottom half of the slide.
Jim coming around the corner and about to punch the big hole backed by the undercut. There is a bad strainer in the right side of this rapid.
Coming off the bottom tier of the slide.
Peeling off into the second slide. At higher flow alternate lines open up.
its bigger than it looks.
The first little class 2 slide after the flatwater. Next thing around the corner are the big ones.
More sliding action on Mossy.

This is both the first and second slides at high water???

This drop is located just past the short pool next to Rogers Mill. The hole on the right gets nasty at some levels.