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Pastimes : Canoes, Hiking, the Great Outdoors -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lindsay who wrote (163)	7/13/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 325

Hi Lindsay, No, I haven't canoed down in your neck of the woods yet. I was quite tempted to in late winter this year. In March I was at a paddlesport show up here (Canada) and there were a lot of tripping companies that had brochures, etc... for canoe rental/tour packages running in Florida and the Carolinas. Seemed pretty tempting with a foot of snow still on the ground and several inches of ice still on the rivers in these parts...(-: What's the paddling like down there? Are there good, quiet places to paddle, or are there a lot of boats all over the place, etc...? Up here, it's still fairly easy to find a nice quiet creek or small river which you have almost all to yourself. However, the big rivers are a drag... sea-doos, water-skiers, and a lot of other crazy things roaring around... Not a good place to go paddling... croc

To: Lindsay who wrote (163)	7/16/1999 11:47:00 AM
From: Tomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 325

Hey Croc and Lindsay, Thought I never would read a post from anyone near, sort of, me. I live in the NE corner of TN, where North Carolina, Tennessee and Virgina meet. Very familiar with the North Carolina water, even lived in Charlotte for a while. Lindsay, what rivers do you frequent up this way? Yes Croc there are a variety of rivers and creeks in the area, some are crowded with boaters some are not. The water ranges from creeks that are no more than 5 feet wide in places with 20 foot drops to meandering streams that are flatwater. Some of the rivers flow in the 3000 cfs to 15,000 cfs range, but the creeks, 300 cfs to 1,500 cfs are the majority. Everything form playboat kayaks to 17' tandem canoes can be seen on them, winter or summer. Our problem is keeping water in them, the better are free flowing rivers. We do have problems on the larger rivers with SeaDoos, etc., but they stay on the lakes for the most part. A friend of mine and I did 100 miles this past March in a tandem open boat on the French Broad, which runs through Asheville, NC. We started at the headwaters south of Brevard and paddled up and into Tennessee, saw some foks, but no one else was on the water. Beautiful snow one day. The area is nothing like what you have in Canada though, more difficult to get away from everyone. If you are on a lake there are certain to be houses on it. The river gorges are nice though, steep walls and no people for the most part, just other paddlers. Tom