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...it would demand variety. Living right on a reliable Class III river, like living in Ohiopyle, PA, where the Lower Yough is boatable 365/Year, would just not be good enough for me. I've run the Lower Yough fewer than 100 times (maybe 90 or so) and already I have tended to avoid it for the last six or seven years because I am so familiar with all the rapids. It is true that if all I wanted to do was drill, it would be a great place, but I just love seeing different rivers.
I guess in my thinking the Nolichucky and the Doe are more like Class III. Right now a French Broad/Nolichucky weekend, three hours from home, is like a Lower Yough/Cheat Canyon weekend was when I lived three hours from them, outside Washington DC. I pretty much rate the New Gorge and Lower G as Class III+ (maybe a couple Class IV rapids, but overall III+) which is why Fayetteville is on my short list, with the Cranberry, Cherry, Williams, and Elk all nearby and the New Gorge to fall back upon.
Salida isn't bad because there are a number of sections of the Arky, with the Taylor just over Cottonwood Pass, and a whole buckin' funch of stretches and tributaries of the Colorado not too far away. I think even the Poudre is within sane weekend-trip range. I don't know anything about Northern Cal. How much variety is there in the region of the American?
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Thanks, DV. My assessment would be similar, but... New 
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