My plan for Saturday on Clear Creek
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:10 pm
Let's drive away from the hall in Lenoir City at 9 am eastern time, stop at the HQ office for the Obed-Emory National River in Wartburg and leacve there by 10 am eastern time. This means that we need to get boats and people consolidated and loaded prior to 9 am. I am doing it this way because I am sure some folks will say "I'll meet you at Wartburg." BTW, the Wartburg HQ is a traditional meeting place for Obed boaters. It is in downtown Wartburg and easrier to find than to give directions to. Just go to Wartburg and look around. You cannot miss it. We can gove good directions from Lenoir City to Wartburg on Saturday morning. I think it will take maybe 45 minutes. (Louie, is that right?) We will take several vechicles to Nemo, maybe leave a couple at Lily and go to Jett with all the boats. We may just send the boats to Jett as we run the shuttle. If there are shuttle bunnys around we can certainly use them. There is lots of good hiking in the area and SBs can easily watch the boaters run both Lily rapid and Jack's Rock..
We will stop to scout and set safety at Jack's Rock, Camel Rock and Wooten's Folley.
If we stick to the above schedule we will be on the river during the warmest part of the day and off before 4 pm. The weather is predicted to be somewhere between 56 and 62, with sunny to possible showers. I will wear my dry suit and we will stop for lunch.
I am not a person who worries about my boats being stolen but I am sure that Louie has a place we can store them. I'd rather not take unused boats because my goal will be to make as few round trips with as few cars/trucks as possible. Also TSRA has a training event Saturday on Clear Creek so parking at Jett may be at a premium and we will seeanother big group on the river.
Maybe I'l make a quick run on Clear Creek on Friday just to check it out. Anybody want to paddle Friday?
Chris Kelly
We will stop to scout and set safety at Jack's Rock, Camel Rock and Wooten's Folley.
If we stick to the above schedule we will be on the river during the warmest part of the day and off before 4 pm. The weather is predicted to be somewhere between 56 and 62, with sunny to possible showers. I will wear my dry suit and we will stop for lunch.
I am not a person who worries about my boats being stolen but I am sure that Louie has a place we can store them. I'd rather not take unused boats because my goal will be to make as few round trips with as few cars/trucks as possible. Also TSRA has a training event Saturday on Clear Creek so parking at Jett may be at a premium and we will seeanother big group on the river.
Maybe I'l make a quick run on Clear Creek on Friday just to check it out. Anybody want to paddle Friday?
Chris Kelly