Settingdown Creek

Pooles Mill to GA Route 369

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May 21, 2013

Trip Report

ReporterJohn Orr

This river was the highest I've ever seen it. We went to the Amicalola first and it was peaking at around 3.8'. We came here thinking we could get some high water laps on everything. Wrong. It was really high. We scouted for about and hour or more. There was a line but if you are good enough to make those lines you are probably somewhere else anyway. All the main lines at lower water are solid class V at these levels. Running the left line on the first slide means you are willing to run everything to just above double drop. Which is BIG when it is this high. We went up and decided we could run the far right on the first slide. We walked down and had a fan crowd. Everyone had clean lines and made the last eddy so it ended up being an pretty good day. When it's this high there are probably some more realistic options other places.