Chattooga Headwaters - Section 1 Rock Gorge - First legal trip Jan. 2007

This edited video from the first legal run on the headwaters since the Chattooga became a Wild & Scenic River done for the USFS trials was prepared for the USFS study. This is the section from Burrells Ford bridge to the Highway 28 bridge, including Big Bend Falls, Crack in the Rock Hole in the Wall, Maytag, Harvey Wallbanger, and other rapids. There are a few clips from a prior pirate trip also.
This was the culmination of a grueling, long term process with the USFS to reverse the ban on paddling above Highway 28.
Paddlers include Don Kinser, Don Piper, Milt Aitken, Shane Day, Brian Jacobson, Todd Corey, Ben Ellis, Bo Shelby, Ken Holmes, Ken Vagias, Jim Smolka, & Tom Jackson.

[@briand3837]

has the fellow learned to roll yet?

[@whitewater-video]

Oh him? He went back to the Nantahala!

[@jcreeker5581]

Nice video. And open boat carnage too. Think I recognize the boater at ~3:20