Cheoah River TR

This is from the Cheoah river west of Robbinsville, NC. It's real close to TN along hwy 129. The cheoah Dam (maybe calderwood dam?) is the Dam that Harrison Ford jumped off to escape Tommy Lee Jones in THE FUGITIVE. It is seen from the bottom of the run. Cheoah is a great 9 mile long roadside run with very good continuous rapids. It's a grade harder than Ocoee with a number of solid class 4-4+. It's dam controlled and is released about 18 times a year. Sometimes it runs after a big rain.

Our group of 7 was mostly all UGA students, and 5 of them were first timers. We did 1 full length lap and then a 2nd lap of the lower section where most of the good rapids are.



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Paj at Bear creek
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William's first time. He went into the seam and disappeared
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