Tennessee

Bald River Bald River Falls Bald River	Class IV (VI)	Suislide & Buying the Farm - Brian "Cock-O" Collins & Mark Cumnock (Tellico was 4.5 ft) (From the TOP)(Tellico trib) Corran Addisson (The ONLY claimed descent of this drop) "I assume you ran Bald River Falls on the Rt somewhere at high water? How did the run turn out?" Corran: "Right banking turn, not super high water but high enough. Broke the boat, and buggered my ankles. This was pre-bulkhead days, but the pyranha kayaks had them, thank god."
Basin Creek (Basin Falls) Waldens Ridge, near Rockwood Tennessee	?	First Descent Andy, Louie, John, Boone, Tom Window
Big Creek (Savage Gulf Area) (early 90's)	Class IV-V	First Descent Ron Stewart and Chuck Estes
Upper Big Creek (Pigeon trib.)	Class IV/V	Chip Collins and friends (inflatables late 80's or early 90's) Roger Derrough and Chris Bell in hardboats (1993)
Brush Creek (Roaring Trib)	Class V+	First Descent Jim Little (OC-1), Mike "Louie " Lewis (OC-1), Steve Smith, & Mark Cumnock
Big Brush Creek	Class IV+	First Descent Ron Stewart, Mike Culberson, Terry Smith, Doug Wellman. Initially attempted by Ron Stewart on a solo mission but stopped short after a bad pin required that he cut his spray skirt in order to escape from the subsurface pin
Little Brush Creek	Class IV+/V	First Descent Ron Stewart (solo expedition)
Burgess Falls (top drops) 1993	?	First Descent Clay Wright and Howard Tidwell
Cane Creek (Fall Creek Falls)	Class IV+	First Descent Terry Smith, Doug Wellman, Ron Stewart One group hiked out due to no water after running the rapids
Cain Creek (North Chick. tributary)	Class IV+	First Descent: Ron Stewart, Scott Shoup (C1), and one other boater ? , the group ran everything but Vortex. (The run had been attempted prior but was no where near successful) Shortly after First Descent: Ron Stewart, Doug Wellman, Terry Smith, Andy Turner made a run Vortex (left line) Clay Wright (was run earlier but resulted in a pin) Vortex (right line) Jonathon Calardy and Mark Cumnock tag teamed Vortex, Mark went first, Jonathon Calardy holding the back of his boat, then Mark held Jon's boat, Karen Morton was setting safety. Very minimum water level. The group said they figured out the rock shelf on the bottom was actually smooth, and the dry boof line was not grabbie. Vortex (right line) normal flow: Clay Wright maybe?
Coal Bank Creek (Soddy trib.)	Class IV+(V)	First Descent Tim Williams, Jonathan Clarty (Ron Stewart gave his paddle to Jonathan on this one otherwise he would be on this listing as well.)
Coker Creek	Class IV/IV+	First Descent Mike "Louie" Lewis (OC-1), Brian " Cock-O" Collins, and Mark Cumnock Dan Grey and Tom Tohill later came and ran to the Hiawassee
Cooper Creek	Class IV+ / V	First Descent Tim Williams and Mark Lyle Last Temptation Chris Young and Tony Robinson
Deep Creek (Soddy trib.)	Class V	First Descent Winter 1995 - Andy Bridge (C-1), Mike "Louie" Lewis (OC-1), Bailey "Big Water" Johnson (OC-1), Jim Little (OC-1), Brian "Cock-O" Collins, and Mark Cumnock
Duskin Creek	Class III/IV	First Descent Spring 1992 Tom Tohill & Dan Grey
Falling Water Creek	Class V	First Descent Tim Williams and Bill Morwinkle Mark Lyle was the first to run several of the rapids below the 1 large waterfall just below Dragon's Lair (mandatory portage, river left).
Foster Falls late 80's	60+ Feet	Jessie Sharp
Greeter Falls 1999/2000 50 Foot approx	Class V+	First Descent Harry Fields, Dave Grove, Seth Warren
Griffin Creek Click here for more info	Class IV	First Descent: (spring of 1995?) Tom Bowen, Tim Williams, and Bill Morwinkle. (goes underground)
Hancock Creek	?	First Descent Tom Towhill, Dan Gray & company
Henderson Creek	Class V	First Descent Spring 1991 Mark Cumnock, Doug Wellman, Terry Smith, Ron Stewart, Alex Harvey & Francis Mallory Fire Escape: Howard Tidwell Spinal Adjustment: Ron Stewart First Canoe Descent (approx. 1993): Mike"Louie"Lewis
Kick Your Dog Falls (Lynn Camp Prong)	Class V	Leroy Leonard and Brian Nicholson early 90's, Leroy named the drop Bailey Johnson (1992/3) close second/maybe first Flood Stage: Brian Sandlin, Ben Hayes (1998)
McGill Creek	Class IV/IV+	First Descent Jeff Richards (OC-1), Mike "Louie " Lewis (OC-1), Steve Smith, & Mark Cumnock
Middle Creek	Class V	First Descent: Mark Lyle, Jeff West, Keith Liles, Brady, (Pablo?). Soon after: Keith and Clay Wright Superman Slide - 1st Lane Rankin 2nd Ben Friberg Shoot Me in the Face with a 0.09 - 1st Ben Friberg 2nd Lane Rankin
Mill Creek Falls Crab Orchard Creek trib. (March of 1994)	30+footer	First Descent Carl Malatin
Morgan Creek a.k.a. North Pole	Class V	First Descent: Ron Stewart, Tim Williams, Andy Turner First Descent: (OC-1) Mike "Louie" Lewis Soon After: Woody, Bo Wallace, Francis, Doug Welman, Ron Stewart,Terry Smith etc) knocked off most of the big ones (including Chile Pepper and decap) Later Group Dale Johnson(OC-1) and Jeff Richards(OC-1) - This group knocked out the remaining 4 unrun drops (documented on Vertical Addiction) Snow Falls: Clay Wright 1993/4
Mullens Creek	Class IV	First Descent - very early attempt by Tom Towhill & Dan Gray. This group ran very little Tim Williams cleaned it up
North Chickamauga Creek 1980	Class IV+	First Descent Roger Scott, Ken Strickland, Tom Parson
Paine Creek (Richland trib.)	Class IV+	First Descent Spring 1991 Mike Cawood (OC-1) & Mark Cumnock
Pine Creek (near Smithville) 2001	?	First Descent Clay Wright and Christie Dobson Pine Creek Falls (30 feet) - Clay Wright
(Little) Piney Creek	Class IV+	First Descent 1991 Mark Cumnock, Mike Cawood (OC-1)
Pocket Creek Click here for more info	?	First Descent : April 1994 Todd Gould , Justin Howard and Mark Cumnock First OC-1 Decent(couple weeks after 1st D) Jim Little -The Creek was left alone for many years till Jonathon (a.k.a. Lothar) Clardy and Tom Bowen came behind 1st D., about 6 years later, at high water. Tom hiked out and Lothar told him he should have done the same.
Pole Bridge Creek (Henderson Tributary)	Class IV+	First Descent Terry Smith, Doug Wellman, Ron Stewart OC-1 Louie?
((Little) Possom Creek	Class V	First Descent Spring 1993 Bill Thornton, Wade Verbal, Todd Gould K-1Steve Frazier (OC-1), Jim Little (OC-1), & Mark Cumnock 2 attempts : flash flood on the first trip, 3 lost and destroyed, sent Mark to hospital
(Big) Possom Creek	Class IV+	First Descent Summer 1994 Justin Howard & Mark Cumnock
Richland Creek (Hike to dam)	Class IV/V (varies with water level)	First Descent Doug Wellman Early 1991? Ron Stewart Early 1991? First descent OC-1 Spring 1991: Mike Cawood
Roaring Creek	Class IV/V	First Descent Jeff Richards (OC-1), Mike Cawood (OC-1), Steve Smith, & Mark Cumnock
Rock Creek	Class IV
Rock Island Falls 1992/3 Rock Island "Sieve City" mid 80's	20 feet Class IV/V	Clay Wright and Tracy Clapp Clay Wright High Water Descent: Seive City 30,000 2003 EJ (http://www.jacksonkayak.com/JKstories/sieve-city.cfm)
Savage Falls	23 feet	First Descent 1998 Clay Wright and Chris Young
Savage Gulf	Class V	First Descent Doug Wellman, Scott Shoup, Tim Williams (group hiked out due to no water below top section. This run now illegal)
(Big) Soddy	Class IV+(V)	First Descent Ron Stewart, Doug Wellman, Scott Shoup, Andy Turner and Chuck Estes (group ran everything except for 3 drops, everything has been run since).
Little Soddy	Class IV-V	First Descent Mark Cumnock
Stinging Fork (Soak Creek) (Piney River trib.)		First Descent 1994 - Mark Cumnock, Bailey "Big Water" Johnson (OC-1), Jeff Richards (OC-1) The falls was run as far back as the mid 1970s by Mark Hall, Patrick McNally, and Alan Singley. A photo of their run graced the wall of Bruce Hare's Chattooga Whitewater Shop for many years.The classic picture of Stinging Fork Falls was of Pat McNally, taken by Singley. Pat, Alan, and Mark Hall were there in the mid 70's in the middle of winter, at REALLY high water. They couldn't run anything else, so they hiked in to SF. They all ran it multiple times, and Alan even has a picture of Mark running it backwards, though unintentionally. There is a not-so-good picture of Alan running it around somewhere. During the 80's A group form Kentucky hiked in there to shoot video for the Whitewater bluegrass fest. Robin fractured his back when he, Bobby Gaar, Danny Tipton and I were there in 1983. Robin landed flat, broke his back, bed ridden for months. A better write up will probably be in Charlie Walbridge's safety archives.
Suck Creek	Class V	First Descent (Feburary 1989) Ron Stewart and Daniel Liberman 3 drops walked were run at a later date by Scott Shoup, Andy Turner and Danny Smith
South Suck	Class V	First Descent 1995 or 1996 Clay Wright
Tellico River		Baby Falls: 1973/4 - Doug Woodward (kayak) from Georgia
Turtletown Creek	Class IV/V	First Descent Early Spring 1995 Brian Collins & Mark Cumnock
Waterloo Falls located on Spring Creek	30' ? (10' to shelf to 20')	Has been run but no one knows by who....
West Prong	Class V Class V Class V	Picnic Tables to Overlook late 80's Tom Visnius or Eric Young(circa 1986) Trailhead to Picnic Tables 1993/4 Jeff Robinson, ? Roadprong Travis Richardson (solo) Skyline Falls - Travis U-Turn- Chris Young

North Carolina

Green River Narrows Green River Narrows Green Narrows	Class V	(mid-70s) Jimmy Holcombe probed the Green, broke his glass boat, and came back with an epic tale that it was a no-go. (mid-70s) mid 70's Pete Zirfle - ended up leaving his boat at Gorilla (retrieved it the next day) 70's Wisconsin Hoofers - Portage Fest 1978 Scott Pendergrast, Andrew Stults, and Mike Rainey ran it in a portage fest that almost resulted in being stuck in there overnight. Eric Nies (of Nies’ Pieces fame and who named Frankenstein “Frankenstein Falls” because it was so damn ugly), KB, and Cat (portaged a lot) November 1988 Portage Free Run: Tom Visnius and John Kennedy. On this historic run they got the first descent on: "Go Left & Die, Gorilla , Sunshine, and Nutcracker? (late 80's). At Gorilla, they had planned to catch the eddy in the Notch and ride down the river right shelf to avoid the flume, but it didn’t work. The missed the eddy and ran the flume instead. They called Gorilla “Zoom Flume” and Woody renamed it soon thereafter and it stuck. They were so determined to run everything, they got stuck in the middle of Nutcracker and had to get out of their boats and swim for it. 1991 - Dave "Psycho" Simpson (first OC-1???) - Gorilla
Raven's Fork	Class V/V+	1)Lower Gorge ("Mike Tyson's Punch Out" and Below) Chris Young and Ben Hayes (Nov 1998) 2)Above "Big Boy Down" Eric Young and Allen Brasswell 1999 3)Whole Gorge (March 99) Chris Young, Allen Brasswell, Andy Beddingfield, ?, ?, ? First Descents of individual rapids: "Big Boy"-Allen Brasswell Mangler - Pat Keller Hail Mary - Tao Berman, same day Jason Hale(bad pin), this rapid is now snuck to the right
Lower Joe Creek (Green trib.) 1994		Lean Bell and Leland Davis
Rock Creek (Green trib.) 1995 (including the falls)		Leland Davis, Trip Kenney
Big Hungry (Green trib.)	Class IV+	Tom Visnius and ?
Watauga Gorge	Class IV+
Horesepasture	Class V	December 13 and 14, 1986 Victor Jones and Lee Belknap - lots of portages, couple of rappels, they camped in a depression 3/4ths of the way down Windy Falls on the steep hillside on river right Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar 93/94 ran everything except the 2 major falls (Rainbow & Windy)
Horesepasture Narrows 1992/93	Class V+	Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar
Toxaway 1978	Class V	Keith Backlund (supposedly took 3 days) From Big Falls Down... 1993/94 Larry Grainger and Bret Gentry (took 2 days) Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar went just after this group, took 10 hours - filmed and didn't shoot Pungi Stick, Energizer, that tight crack, 40/40, Land-bridge (thought they stuff a rope on it), or Wintergreen except seal launches into the bottom of one or two So who knocked off the big ones first: Baby Energizer - ? Energizer - ? 40/40 - ? Landbridge - ? Wintergreen - ?
Triple Falls (approx 1993) Little River (near Brevard)	Class V	Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar
Looking Glass Falls (Brevard NC)	Class V	Descents by date: 1990 - low water- Corran Addison (seriously injured) March 1995 - Mark Cumnock -(landed flat, cracked T-12, perm. spinal damage) Russ Kullmar (no injury - January 27, 1996) Sept 8th, 2004 Pat Keller and Austin Rathman (pitoned) Click Here to Watch Pat's Run Click Here to Watch Austin's Run
West Fork of the Pigeon	Class IV+	"Garden of the Gods" - Unrun Culvert Bridge & down - Tom Visnius and crew early 90s Staring about 1/4 mile below the culvert - Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar(approx 92)(unless jimmy holcombe got it 1st)
West Fork of French Broad 1981	Class IV+	Brian Jacobson and Mike Moriarity (ran everything)
Big East Fork of the Pigeon 1980s	Class V	Jimmy Holcombe
Cullasaja (mid 80's)	Class V	Brit Gentry
Courthouse Falls (1992 / 93)	Class V+	1st - Russ Kullmar 2nd - Kent Wiginton
Silver Run Falls (1993 / 94)	Class V	Ken Holmes and Jamie Griener 1 week later - Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar (they also ran the entrance rapid)
Panther Town Creek (approx 95) Upper Tuck trib.	Class IV+	Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar (they ran everything)
West Fork Tuckasegee (2001)	?	Kevin Colburn, Leland Davis, Bunny Johns, James Jackson, Ken Kastorff, John Miller, Danny Mongno, and Shane Williams.
Boone Fork (Watauga)	?
Upper Boone Fork (Watauga) February '97	Class IV+/V	Franklin Smith, Jim Little, Brent Meadows, Ben Hayes
Buckeye Creek (Watauga trib) January '98	?	Team Jib
Laurel Creek (Watauga trib)	?	Upper - Team Jib Lower (trash can falls) Daniel Delavergne and Spencer Cooke
Thompson Creek 1994	Class IV-V	Britt Gentry and Larry Grainger
Linville river	Class V/V+	about '75 Tom McEwan and Wick Walker: made an attempt and got down 1/2 way before walking out for lack of water about '76 Tom McEwan and Jamie: ran a couple more miles farther before carrying out our severely leaking boats The Actual First Descent: ??? (multi day trip) 1st One day descent: about 89/90/91 David ?(Dancer), RB Binegar (AQ) and Alex (Gyramax) ?(13 hours) 1st Portage Free Run: Date: ? Russ Kullmar and Corran Addison
Yellow Creek	?	Kevin Colburn and ?
Cheoah	?	1978 Homer King and Billy Richards (level: "a good flow") Ken Kastorff and Joe Huggins were also early pioneers. 2002 (flood stage) Charles Conner and Sutton Bacon ran it at a historically high flow. (7.0 feet).
Top Elk
Upper Elk
Lower Elk	Class V+	"Compression Falls" (Big Falls) Steve Frasier (14' open canoe) - He ran it nearly dry and boofed flat, broke his back and the drop received its name Brian Hunter (gauley ranger) ran it in a Duck in the early 90's.
North Fork Catawba Feb. '97		Brent Meadows, Franklin Smith, Jim Little (Team Jib)
Upper Creek
Wilson Creek
Whitewater Creek 1991	Class V+	Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar (walked a total of 25 yards)
Gragg Prong (Upper Wilson)

Georgia

Bear Creek (1991 approx.)	Class V/V+	First Descent - Ron Stewart and Doug Welman, low water and lots of portaging, they boated the upper half of the run (to the confluence) and walked out in the dark Second Descent- This one was actually the first full descent. Completed by Ron Stewart, Doug Wellman, Scott Shoup(C-1), and Lone Wolf. It was on this run that Ron did the first descent of Stairway To Heaven. He was the only one in the group to run it that day. Most Runs In 1 Day (6 Runs): Feb 22nd, 2005 - Lane Rankin and Mark Lyle Shortly after the first two descents Bo Eakens, John Regan and Roger Zabel (ran everything except Surrealistic Pillow) John Regan and Roger Zabel were the only two to run Big Bang on the left with Roger landing solidly on rock. Roger was hurt and convinced rest of group to walk. Stairway to Heaven: Ron Stewart Surrealistic Pillow: Tracy Clapp(main line)Accidently? Surrealistic Pillow: Clay Wright (far right line) Big Bang - left side John Regan and Roger (both injured?), Big Bang - right side Tracy Clapp 1st Complete Bear Run: Tracy Clapp- Barely missed the last eddy before Surrealistic Pillow, got turned around and ran it backwards, which probably helped him out. There was a log in the rapid and he went right under it with his entire torso leaning over the bow of the boat. An excellent position to be in to get under the log.
Daniel's Creek (Bear trib.) 1996	Class V	Clay Wright
Overflow Creek	Class IV+	1975/1976 Alan Singley (Solo!) For More Info Click Here 1978 1st Complete Run-John Kennedy( Mark V),Bo Eakens (Phoenix Slipper), John Regan(Sauna), Les Bechtel (Phoenix Cascade), Chis Spelius, Bill Baxter and Gary Duven(all 3 in hallowforms), Jim Schelander, and Rex Shawberg Marginal- John Kennedy was the first to run Marginal followed by John Regan and then a scary run by Rex, as he got hung up on the center rock and almost went into the undercut on the right side. John blew most of the seams out on his boat the Marginal Monster drop. Bo Eakens-"Almost every boat on that trip had the noses pointing skyward after the trip. The Hollowforms were NOC safety boats, and they were never quiite the same again!"
Holcomb Creek (West Fork of the Chattooga tributary)		Alan Singley attempted this in perhaps 1976 Alan paddled down as far as he could until the creek literally leaps off the side of the mountain (unrunnable) on its way to the Three Forks, then carried down the mountain and finished the run out the West Fork.
Big Creek (Overflow trib.) 1970's	Class IV-V	Ken Strickland (K-1), Mark Warren, and Joe Stubbs were in a C-2, Ray Stang(K-1), Tom Moye(C-1) "we walked as much as we paddled" Russ Kullmar and Corran Addison - they ran everything except the mandatory portages year-?
Clear Creek (overflow trib.) (1994)	Class IV+	Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar
Tallulah Gorge	Class IV+ Oceana (V)	May 1993 first descents were on the AW test flow Group 1: Kent Wiginton, Nolan Whitesell, Jerry Jascomb, Charles Brewer, and Ron Stewart Group 2: Jim Silavent, Mark Levine, Walter Lynch, Mike Hipsher, and Bill Hester 1st Descent of Oceana: Kent Wiginton - middle line- thought it looked the safest overall 2nd Descent of Oceana: Jerry Jascomb - far left line (originally considered a sneak route) Flood Stage: Kent Wiginton was still on the river when the dam operators thought everyone was off the river and they dumped the rest of the water. It got really big down there (nobody exactly knows but it was probably around 2000 cfs (gauge wasn’t installed yet)
Brasstown Creek Falls (Chattooga trib.) 1996 / 97	Class V	John Leason, Bruce Hair, & Snuffy Hall
Chattooga River August 19, 1994	Class V+	Flood Stage: (approx 9.97 feet according to USGS) Snuffy, John Lesan, Richard Oldenquist, Kent Wiginton and Russ Kullmar (An ill prepared rafter died in Dicks Creek Ledge that day)
Allen Creek Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Management Area	Class IV-V	1989 - Rome boys (Eric Macleod and Matt Jennings) Will Reeves,
Holley Creek	Class IV	1st Decent: Spring 1989 (flooded) - Mike Camp & Mark Cumnock. After this they headed to Mill Creek the same day for another 1 decent.
Mill Creek	Class III (V)	1989 (Group ran first decent on Holley Creek same day) Mill Creek Falls Obadiah Jenkins June 26, 2004
Allen Creek		Asleep at the Wheel - Brian "Cock-O" Collins 1995 "got slammed so his group walked it"

Alabama

Walls of Jericho Gorge Turkey Creek (AL/TN border)		Mark D and group from Alabama Whitewater (big pothole falls is still unrun)
Miller Creek Alabama Whitewater Write-up	Class V	First Descent(approx date: Spring 1995): Jim Little oc-1, Brian Collins, Justin Howard, Mike Camp, and Mark Cumnock Bo Eakens may have been the first to run the slide at the put-in.
Jones Creek	Class V	Jones Falls Spring of 1991 Bo Eakens
Little Bear Creek (Little River Canyon Tributary)	?	1970's- Old Alabama Crowd (?) 1982-Terry Smith, Andy Turner, Marc Sellars, Danny Smith
Hicks Creek (trib. of Little Bear in LRC) 2003	Class IV-V	First Descent Milt Aitken, Rob Maxwell, Hank Sherrod
Little River Canyon Falls	Class V Class V+ Class V+	Left Line (most common route): (approx.1991) Bo Eakins(1st), Terry Smith and Ron Stewart (Followed by Doug Wellman the next day) Center Line 1993/94 Clay Wright or Corran Addison (close timing) (Bo Eakins ran shortly after) Right line 1st Descent: Corran Addison 2nd Descent: Rich Weiss (ran in a glass slalom boat)
Long Island Creek	Class III (IV-)	First Descent: Brian "Cock-O" Collins and Mark Cumnock
Flat Rock/Coon Creek		First Descent Winter 90/91 Doug Wellman, Terry Smith, Tom Toehill and Dan Gray missed the takeout, paddled an extra 2 miles in the dark and asked a power boat for directions. Doug and Terry fnished all the big rapids before dark ahead of Tom and Dan, they had to portage all the major drops because it was dark. 25 degrees.

Bottom Creek	Class V	Ricky Showalter and Randy Boush
Roaring Creek	Class V	Mid 90’s Ricky Showalter and Randy Boush
North Fork Tye	Class V	Spring, 1995 Greg Gill, Gordon Dalton, Glen Piegari, Kevin Batteh . Kevin was only one to run “Marbles” (Greg declared Kevin had “lost his marbles – .
South Fork Tye	Class V	Early 90’s “Hairy” Gary Ward or Jeff Schnelle, Greg Gill, ??
Upper North Fork Tye (Adrenaline Alley)	Class V	Spring, 2004 Gordon Dalton, Josh Sandage.
Upper South Fork Tye (Tip-Top-Tye)	Class V+	1994 Gary Ward and Joe Bousquin
Statons Creek	Class V	1996 - Casey Cockerham (Chris Cios- ran along bank setting safety all day) September, 2003 (Hurricane Isabel) First full-descent: Gordon Dalton, Luke Hopkins, Harris Haynie, and ?
Laurel Run	Class IV-V	Spring, 2002 Jeremy Laucks and ?
Marl Creek "teacups"	Class IV-V	September, 2003 – Hurricane Isabel Gordon Dalton, Harris Haynie, Jack Bauer
Lick Fork		2002 Mason Basten and friends
Paul’s Creek	700 fpm	September, 2004 – Hurricane Frances or Ivan?) Gordon Dalton, Josh Sandage, Mason Basten
South Fork Rockfish River big slides	Class V	Casey Cockerham and Richmond crew
Hay’s Creek including Tufa Falls	Class II-III (V+)	Spring, 2002 Gordon Dalton, Harris Haynie, Jeremy Laucks
Stairway to Heaven (Lundsford Creek)		Fall, 2003 Harris Haynie ran the lower cascades
South Fork Piney	Class V	1995 First attempt at the lower section at high water by a Roanoke crew (Ricky Showalter, Joey Beck, and Randy Boush along with Greg Gill from Charlottesville - resulted in total destruction of the party literally within ¼ mile Blood and a broken finger. ("the water was so high that day ... the road that goes along the Tye River was completely flooded and so was the fields to each side of the road, it looked like a lake and so after we could not make it to the put in of the North and South Fork of the Tye we decided to look for water somewhere else (thank God). We found it and it had to have been one of the wildest rides I have ever had... even if it was short!") Winter 2002 - First successful descent , by Gordon Dalton and Harris Haynie – barely made it out that night.
Mill Creek (Narrows, VA)		1998/99 - Ricky Showalter, Joey Beck, and Randy Boush

West Virginia

Mann's Creek (trib of New)	Class V+	BJ and Kent McCracken had to hike out and finish from bottom of Drano down the next day Jeff Findley knocked off Liquid Drano first Greg Gill (He is the reason “Greg’s Hole” on Mann’s has that name)
Real Mann's Creek (trib of Mann's)	Class V+olf	BJ, Clay Wright, & ?
Keeney's Creek (trib of the New)	Class V+	BJ and Kent McCracken
Wolf Creek (trib of the New)	Class V+	Sections: BJ and Clay Wright Complete Run: BJ, Little Dave & ? Some Locals ran other parts (?)
Laurel Creek (trib of the New) Cotton Hill	Class V	Roadside Attraction - first run by BJ (filmed by his girlfriend) Captain Crunch (preflood) - BJ and Kent Mccracken Captain Crunch (postflood) - Jimmy Blakeny
Panther Creek (trib of Gauley) early 80s	Class V
Glade Creek (trib. of the New) Raleigh County	Class IV+	Kim Casto, Greg Anderson, David Brisell and Doug Ackerman Upper Section (water plant to Pinch Creek) They put - in at Pluto Road (?) water plant, had lunch at Pinch Creek, and ran all the way to the mouth of Piney Creek McCreery (arriving after dark). They ran everything except the falls at Pinch Creek. They made several more runs over the next few years, including the falls.
Glade Creek (trib. of Mann's)	Class V+
Mill Creek (trib. of the New) Hawk's Nest mid-70s	Class V	OCT 9, 1976 Put-on above the railroad trestle Estimated flow of 400 cfs. Bryan Bills and Don Beyer. Don Beyer took off somewhere below the 20 ' waterfall and only Bryan made the bottom. Earnie Kincaid shot 8MM movie and edited and produced a short film called "Run of the Mill". Scott Mansour never took his boat off his vehicle this day.
The Meadow (trib of the Gauley) late 70s (Corridor L to the Gauley)	Class V	Don Beyer and a few others (every rapid was successfully run by someone in the group, although apparently some of the runs inspired the rest to carry)
Upper Blackwater 1971	Class V	Joe Monahan and others
North Fork of Black Water	Class V
The Gauley '67 or '68	Class IV+	Andrew Holcomb's dad - 1st descent in a Kayak
The Cheat Canyon 1957		John Berry and company
Seneca Creek
Otter Creek
Red Creek		1988 - Paul Marshall(scouted and cleared this run out), Cheryl Dale, Eric Lindberg. - They were all in Thrillseekers and completed these early runs on Red Creek in Thrill Seekers.
Fikes Run		First Descent - 1975 - Jim Snyder, Phil Culman, and maybe Mike Fentress.
Red Run
Dougherty Creek	Class V	First Descent - 1979 Kieth Backlund, Randy Robinson, Jim Snyder, and John Regan - Completed using 4 meter glass boats. This run was later executed in a Squirtboat by Jeff Snyder.
Big Sandy Creek		Wonder Falls - Approx 1972 - Jim Snyder Big Splat - Jesse Whittemore(followed by Dean Tomko) 1982
Sovern Run
Bull Run	Class V+
Decker's Creek	Class IV-V	First non-portage descent- Jeff Snyder (usuals were there as well: Roger Zebel, Jesse Whitmore, Jim Snyder, probably not boating though) Jeff Snyder also picked all the rapids off one at a time in a Squirt Boat! This was in the early squirtboat days before the Snyder's realized these thin glass machines were not the best for steep terrain. Eventually he and his gang turned to the Thrillseeker for steep arenas and pioneered the glass in deep arenas.
Pringle Run
Laurel Creek (Tygart tributary)
Clay Run (Junction with Quarry Run to Cheat Lake)	Class V+	Jim Snyder and gang (probably using thrillseekers)
Quarry Run		1977 - Phil Culmans, Mike Fentress, and Jim Snyder - On this descent the paddlers were using 4 meter Glass boats. Quite epic considering the gradient involved (approx680 fpm). Phil petoned in some rubble off of a 12 footer and suffered a temporary entrapment.
Elsey Run (county road to Cheat River)	Class V	Jim Snyder, Paul Marshall and a few more.
Keeney's Creek (trib of the New)	Class V

Kentucky

Cumberland Falls	70 Feet approx	Nathan Helms and John Grace

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