Little Kentucky

Secret

Secret

It's not much of a gauge, but when we took out the level was at the bottom of the S in Sabrina. Note that Sabrina is written again above the one I just mentioned. Also note, this is for that second trip report with the HD video.

We encountered a few small drops with waves on the trip.

The second good rapid we found was a cool little surf wave.

This was taken at the third rapid: the wave and smiling hole. I loved hanging out there, we were completely surrounded in wild flowers, and we even had an observer.

The third rapid we found had a smiling hole on river left and a surf wave on river right. The middle of the smiling hole was pretty mean, but at least it flushes out on both sides like smiling holes do. The surf wave was great, we stayed there for well over an hour surfing it.

I loved the green pastures. One time some horses were looking at us like 'what are those humans riding now'. After we floated past them they ran along the fence and stopped and looked at us some more, like a couple of dogs.

The first good rapid we got to was this diagonal wave. You could surf it, but like most diagonal waves it just flushes you out. Since it had eddy service we kept rerunning it. It was pretty mean and repeatedly flipped my brother, and it got me a couple of times as well.

Take-out on Connector Road

Hardy Creek at lower level, just before confluence with Little Kentucky River.

The fun begins at the dam on SR 3175 and ends at connector road bridge about 7 miles downstream. This is also the confluence of Hardy Creek, which is pretty intense at high water. About 1 inch of rain will bring both up to fun levels. An alternate put-in/take-out is at the 421 bridge. A few good wave trains and a couple of nice holes can be found on medium levels, where bigger wave trains are present at higher water. Check out all the other creeks in the area that flow into Little Ky. River, as many I have not been able to catch just right. Corn Creek, Georges Creek, Buck Creek, Daugherty Creek, and Mellins (?) Branch are just a few.