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 agree with you, but I think you misunderstood some of my meaning New
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Re: Best Paddling Town in USA??? haclabau New
Re: depends on the class of boater DonVitoCorleone New
Re: How 'bout the Class III guy? Johnson City or Maryville, TN? Fayetteville or Morgantown, WV? Oci-One.Kanubi New
Re: class III guy town DonVitoCorleone New
Re: Thanks, DV. My assessment would be similar, but... Oci-One.Kanubi New
Date: Jul 31 2008, 22:27 GMT
From: DonVitoCorleone
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I'm not saying you want to run the same river over and over, just that you always have a fall back river that is running. Sucks when you want to paddle and nothing AT ALL runs for a month.
Being in Maryville or Chattanooga, you have access to hundreds of class 3/4 runs with the Ocoee as a constant fall back.
With Chico or Sacramento you have the dam controlled sections of the American and Sac rivers with uncontrolled or snowmelt sections of amazing class 4 through massive class 5 all north and east of you. If you have the skills, Chico California and Sacramento are the real deal.
Problem with JC is that if it hasn't rained in the past couple days, you aren't paddling. With this multi year drought reminding me how dependent on rain our sport is, I would choose to live near a dam controlled or long season river. All of those cities I mentioned have a river really close that has a HUGE season. Little White Salmon has 250 days a year of solid class 5. Asheville has the green for 250 a year. Chatt/maryville has the Ocoee for 200+ a year. My point was that there is always something to fall back on.
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- Check. I'll take yer recommendation and focus on Maryville (and Fayetteville and Morgantown). Oci-One.Kanubi New
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