Manns Creek

New River trib.
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 Manns Creek

trib of Mann's Creek
First Descent - BJ, Clay Wright, & ?

Keeney's Creek

BJ and Kent McCracken
trib of the New River

Wolf Creek

Sections: BJ and Clay Wright

Complete Run: BJ, Little Dave & ?

Some Locals ran other parts (?)
trib. of New River

Laurel Creek

Roadside Attraction - first run by BJ (filmed by his girlfriend)

Captain Crunch (preflood) - BJ and Kent Mccracken

Captain Crunch (postflood) - Jimmy Blakeny
trib. of the New River, Cotton Hill

Panther Creek

First descent - early 1980's
Descenders - ?
trib. of the Gauley

Glade Creek

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.
(trib. of the New) Raleigh County

Glade Creek

Mann's Trib.
Descenders - ?

Mill Creek

First Descent - 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 call
trib. of the New River (Hawk's Nest)

The Meadow

First Descent - Late 1970's
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)
trib. of the Gauley River

Upper Blackwater

First Descent - 1971 Joe Monahan and others

North Fork of the Blackwater

First Descent - ?
First Descenders - ?

Gauley River

First Descent - 1967 or 68
Andrew Holcomb's dad - 1st descent in a Kayak

Cheat Canyon

First Descent - 1957
First Descenders - John Berry and company

Seneca Creek

Otter Creek

Red Creek

First Descent - 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

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

Deckers Creek

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

trib. of the Tygart

Clay Run

Jim Snyder and gang (probably using thrillseekers)
(Junction with Quarry Run to Cheat Lake)

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

Jim Snyder, Paul Marshall and a few more.
County road to Cheat River

Keeney's Creek

New River trib.