We found the white water hot spot ..... a jillion outfitters, and a jillion kayaks, and a lot of rafts ..... and one beautiful river ! This area is used for olympic training, and you can almost always see someone running the gates thru the rapids in front of the main deck of the Nantahala Outdoor Center. Very cool place. As a matter of fact, Charlie was almost speechless..... she just stood there saying "too cool, ..... too cool" Needless to say, we are planning on doing a raft trip before we leave, but are thinking to wait until school starts again and the river will be less crowded. Last year we rafted the Snake River in Grand Teton thru class 2 and 3 rapids....... I wouldn't want to do anything bigger ..... so we'll investigate. More later.
I started this blog entry last week, but couldn't get the photos to upload..... so I'll try again. These are photos of our trip over the mountains and up the Gorge:
this is one of the main launch points upriver
Nantahala Outdoor Center
More later, Marilyn
wow! just wow!
ReplyDeleteLove that place! When Dena and I were there in May they had just opened the top dam that gives all the water to that area. In all my trips through that way, I had never seen the Olympic Center '96 open or even have water. It is beautiful////1
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