Nanty Cascades and Below

mr ray · Post by **mr ray** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:59 pm

Did anyone run any of this over the past couple weeks? Planning on going up there Monday and doing Upper or part of Cascades down to the wesser. Wondering if someone can talk levels. The guage shows ~1k cfs. How much of that is natural flow? If we lose the extra flow over the next few days what will the run be like? At 1k cfs is the normal nanty section worth doing or is it washed out? Any hot tips on how to get there now that the main route is blocked? Thanks!

-Ray

sdbrassfield · Post by **sdbrassfield** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:32 pm

Here is an email link and details...Sounds like the cascades would be BEEFY...

Here is today's update from Duke

Please be advised that with the
Nantahala Lake Level currently at 88.92 (local datum) and a 2 foot gate opening
the discharge at the dam is approximately 720 cfs. The website message will be
updated to reflect this in a few minutes.

Duke Energy will
open the spillway gate at the Nantahala Dam at 4:30 PM Thursday, November 12,
2009. For the fishing and boating communities please be aware that this will
produce with the continued natural inflow very high stream flows in the
Nantahala River bypass. The concrete river ford on the Nantahala Dam Road has
been closed. Note that Duke Energy can change operations to respond to changing
circumstances without any prior notice. We encourage those along and in streams
and other low-lying areas to pay special attention to changing weather
conditions and take any necessary precautions.

The website will
be updated shortly.
Website http://www.duke- energy.com/ lakes/nantahala/ nantahala- lake-levels. asp and then click on the message adjacent to Nantahala Lake under the heading “Date
Lake Message Updated”.

George
A. Galleher, PE
Duke
Energy
Hydro
Fleet Operations and Compliance

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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mr ray · Post by **mr ray** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:27 pm

Thanks! That's very helpful. It does sound like Cascades would be huge. Also sounds like even w/ no nf everything would be pretty big.
Anyone been on any part these past couple weeks?

Dooleyoc-1 · Post by **Dooleyoc-1** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:52 pm

The stuff below the cascades is at a great medium/high level right now. Good continuous fun III+ action. We ran it last weekend. If we don't get more rain I may head up there next weekend and try the cascades...

agrestal · Post by **agrestal** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:02 pm

We ran the Upper Nanty down to the commercial put-in last weekend too. It was a lot of fun! Much better than the 370-470cfs when we had natural flow back in Sept.

mr ray · Post by **mr ray** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:41 am

Thanks for the input! Sounds like a good time. Looks like its about double the flow right now (last weekend was before Ida)--@ over 1k. A friend of mine looked at it today and said there were no eddies and it was big. I guess we'll see how much the NF drops between now and then...

Thanks again!!!

--Ray

Ladd · Post by **Ladd** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:38 pm

I can say last weekend at around 1000cfs that it was quite big on the Upper Nantahala. See attached pics.

Ladd

http://gallery.me.com/ladd_c/100402/IMG_2421

http://gallery.me.com/ladd_c/100402/IMG_2430

http://gallery.me.com/ladd_c/100402/IMG_2423

mr ray · Post by **mr ray** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:23 pm

Ladd wrote:I can say last weekend at around 1000cfs that it was quite big on the Upper Nantahala. See attached pics.

Ladd

Thanks Ladd for the pics. It does look big! Looks like you guys had fun.

-Ray