Cheoah River - Tennessee Paddling Rivers (sitios de interés)
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The recently opened Cheoah River is NOT for the amateur boater. This river is full of Class IV/IV+ rapids with vegetation that requires some skill to navigate. Besides a couple of 1/2 mile relatively calm stretches, this 9 mile run is continuously in a steep grade. The Cheoah has some great wave trains when running at high levels, plenty of classic drops, blind horizon lines and more than a few big holes to play. There is nothing in the southeast longer, harder or steeper than the Cheoah River.
Dropping as many as 146 feet per mile, with average flows of 850 to 1000 cubic feet per second, this western-style river features exciting drops, huge waves and constant action. The 9 mile Class IV+ (V) run is broken into three distinct sections: a Class III narrow top section that winds through trees and shrubs in what Eric Jackson calls "a natural slalom course made for rafts"; a middle Class IV section that opens up with long, continuous whitewater that requires paddling that can be best described as whitewater aerobics rather than a series of forward and backward strokes; and the bottom Class V section nearly three miles long featuring the steepest gradient and largest, most technical drops on the river, including "Bear Creek Falls" and the "Gorge.
Dropping as many as 146 feet per mile, with average flows of 850 to 1000 cubic feet per second, this western-style river features exciting drops, huge waves and constant action. The 9 mile Class IV+ (V) run is broken into three distinct sections: a Class III narrow top section that winds through trees and shrubs in what Eric Jackson calls "a natural slalom course made for rafts"; a middle Class IV section that opens up with long, continuous whitewater that requires paddling that can be best described as whitewater aerobics rather than a series of forward and backward strokes; and the bottom Class V section nearly three miles long featuring the steepest gradient and largest, most technical drops on the river, including "Bear Creek Falls" and the "Gorge.