“That was so much sicker than I expected” | Chauga / Chattooga IV @5ft
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2024
- Once I was back in Charlotte from the Yough I had barely a half hour before I started getting messages that rain was hitting hard all over. So I got right back in the truck and made the rally. Luckily I was able to meet up with the long creek boys and I got to check out the Chauga, and high water Chatooga. The Chauga was great, but then the Chatooga was so different than what I expected, and so glorious. Can’t wait to make the rally up there again.
First time I ran that at 5’ was with Chris Spelius, Becky Weiss and Greystoke. back in about 1989. Stout run. Very fun.
Then in 1990 I got to run it at 8’ with Russ Kullmar. That was pretty rock and roll 🙂
In 1991 again at 5’ with eric Jackson and Scott Shipley. We were in a slalom training camp, the river came up and we bailed on training and went boating
Such a rad run at that level
You should see it with more water! Above 8' it really starts to change and above 10' it's off the rails. The biggest wave in the SE is Bull sluice at those levels. I've run Sandy Ford through Woodall in an hour. Don't underestimate section III either at that level as Dick's Creek, Sandy Ford, and the narrows are as big/bigger than section IV! Screaming left turn is also nuts. I almost drown at Dick's Creek back in 2004 at 11ft+.
This was THE week. Highest levels I've known about in a few decades. Two epic storms. Also hit the Ocoee that week with your dad at some nutty level causing us to have to roll to go under the bridge at Hell hole. About half of our group walked off above Table Saw. Sickness.
I’d be so stoked to check that out.
@@danejacksonkayak Certainly worth the trip if it ever gets up there again. Just note that Sandy Ford looks like the Susitna with it's huge holes and standing waves. Narrows is just as scary. Dick's creek has almost drown 2 pro level boaters over the years with both resulting in terrifying swims. My boat was found 2 miles above bull sluice a week after the water dropped. Easy to skirt the hole if you know it's there! Otherwise it's about 100' wide so not so much...
This is 8'. At 10 feet that big rock on river right is going under water. At 11' it is under water. ua-cam.com/video/NMmNwO0u00M/v-deo.html
Badass dude
Dude that was so sick!!! The Tooga was raging!!! Some of the rapids were unrecognizable. What a cool perspective!
Your a beast bro, your old man was one of my idols growing up. Cheers from New Zealand. Keep charging mate
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Helena Has her pushing 5’ already and the big rain ain’t here yet!!! Gonna be some sick southeastern boating through the weekend!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
i love all the fun you have in this boat. love the squirts and seeing where you do them is inspiring. that was some big water.
i just discovered your vids about yesterday morning and now im going through all of em, thanks for inspiring. I think i mightve found my new hobby, absolutely sick. Greetings from Germany and thx again dude, keep at it!!!
That’s a lot of rolls and a lot of driving pure passion
If Dane Jackson says "I think we should walk it" then there's not going to be much debate lol
Geez. Y’all are good at this. 👀.
That jump coming up to raven rock looked sweet!
mama chattooga doesn't disappoint, dane!
Up until I rafted the Gauley, the Chattooga 4 was the best I had ever done. Love it up there in Long Creek. I drive up just to swim, free dive and treasure hunt around Bull Sluice. Found some kayaker's debit card on the bottom!
Can only imagine how much treasure is out there
@@danejacksonkayak Surprisingly (and happily), at least the Bull Sluice area is pretty clean. I don't know if locals go out and find the good stuff before I get there since I live 100 miles away toward Atlanta. It is still fun to take a mini scuba system and just sit on the bottom or bring my small underwater metal detector.
Just got to the Chattooga Bull Sluice part of the video, 2 years ago last Memorial Day it was like that. I think it might have been at 6 ft. I had never seen it so big. We rafted down the left side at Bull Sluice which I had never seen enough water going over that side, you always had to go through the right on Bull Sluice. Man, I would have loved to have been out there shooting aerial video of you guys with my Mavics.
Next time maybe!
@@danejacksonkayak I got time, I go in for rotator cuff repair surgery tomorrow. Can't wait to be back out and doing things again. Kind of bummed as it is ruining tons of plans. I think I overdosed on your videos last night. Loved watching the places I know of and seeing ones so close by that I didn't know of but I realized that I think more of the commercial rafting rivers and not places kayakers go. I've driven along the scenic highway by the Cullasaja and always thought it would be cool to kayak. Some background- I learned and started paddling on small lakes and streams in Illinois in '86 on a borrowed fiberglass kayak and a year later got one of (I think) the earliest rotomolded kayaks from some place called Whites Kayaks in upstate NY. A buddy of mine still has that kayak. For history's sake, I sometimes think I want it back- I gave it to one friend who later gave it to that guy. Sorry for the long rant and thanks for the entertainment and inspiration.
Great call on the hole.
Sometimes you gotta just walk.
so sick. cutting it pretty close at the end there
respect for showing and advising side walkin that one ugly dark hole :)
Sometimes it’s better to walk. 👍
That’s so sick man great water
Nice video man
I'm famous! I was the one with the playboat on shore at screaming left contemplating bushwacking my way back to the bridge. 🙄🔫
I used to guide there and could barely recognize half the rapids.
I cant miss the opportunity to let you know that I have bushwacked back to the bridge from screaming left at 5ft. I had only been boating for like 9 months at the time and was like EFF this.
y'all should learn your evac trails!
Glad you’re all good! I was trying to figure out what was goin on.
@@danejacksonkayak ?
Brutal as always
You need to come run the Umkomaas River in South Africa. Very similar river, lots of fun.
Damn Charlie was end over end at seven foot
KLCG!!!
I love it, that's so crazy shit !!!
Sweet - Section 4, Bull Sluice @ 5:12
10:36 - Whoa!
Shout out to the LC G's! Ya'll are lit.
CRAZY!!!!!!!!!
The hole at 7:35 looked terminal. Anyone know which rapid this is? Prob one of the stickiest ones in this vid
As far as I can tell he from watching some of his vid he is using different kayaks for different rivers. Am I wrong or is there a methodology behind it? If so, what determines the shape of the kayak to use?
Crikey! The highest I've ever paddled ot was 2.8 ft
I would love to see you on more Georgia runs.
The Bear over in Cloudland Canyon.
Dane when was the last time you had to exit your boat? Seems like I’ve never seen you have to! Great videos!
I know he swam on on the Indus this year or last.
The last time I swam was like he said, on the Indus.
But I did have to get out after Salto Maule in Chile cause my skirt blew, this February.
Great runs Dane! How long into the year can you kayak with the cold on the way?
In the south east you can kayak all winter, in fact that is mainly when all the creeks come in.
Yeah like he said, Southeast is great cause you can kayak basically year round.
@@danejacksonkayak That’s awesome!! Trying to get into some white water kayaking.
I have really enjoyed watching you run rivers, that is until you got your Antix.
Unfortunately all the spinning messes with my vertigo and I have to look away or turn off the video:-(
I do love all your acrobatics, just can't watch them from the top of your head. Makes me dizzy and nauseas.
Yet, you are addicting and I will continue watching you run whitewater, then look away when you pirouette.
I apologize for the dizziness. My goal is just to show anyone that is planning on hitting these runs where, and how many cool moves there are especially with the half slice boats. Some runs have almost no squirts and some have hundreds of them. The next few weeks of videos will have less as they weren’t runs like the gauley and Yough that have so many squirts.
@@danejacksonkayak I so understand. Thanks for the reply. I only wish GoPro had a steady helmet cam similar to what some pilots use on UA-cam, to reduce the quick motion. No worries! I will still be glued to your videos as long as my head lets me ;-) I only wish I could paddle with you. Unfortunately bad wrists have reduced my ability to enjoy challenging white water.
What are your best tips to kickflip?
Was that Willy Wonkas chocolate river?
Kinda scary there towards the end
Low light and logs.
Not a good mix.
Stay safe bro.
We look forward to seeing you get old.
Life is good
"Who has run it?"
uhhhhhhhhh
Wich antix do you like the most?
small medium or large?
I have been using the medium for everything
Sickkkkkkk
Did he die??😮😮😢
what was wrong or so dangerous about that one I guess you call it a hole ? that you had to get out and walk it around it and then it looked at them just to me BTW I don't Whitewater kayak
At those high levels those kinds of features are tough to make it over, and if you were to get stuck there’s a good chance you may need to exit your kayak. The more playful kayaks we had would have also made it harder to get over the feature. The biggest issue though was that we were already running out of daylight so if something were to go wrong that wouldn’t have been good.
#UnlockTheFlood
Yessir respond to the comments more
Wait... so who has run it?
Ummmmmm..............
Man that’s good dirty water.Tree mendous.
I see what you did there
Bro I’ve been watching you for awhile and I’m just noticing a lisp have you always had that or did you hit your mouth haha
He's partially deaf.
He is like 70% deaf
Yep, what they said 🤘
Scouting only takes one person who know what there doing lmao
Just like in golf, never let someone else choose the right club for your next shot, you shouldn’t let someone else scout your line for you.
@@canopybreezesoutdoors4916 guessing that you don"t do much creek boating. No need for everyone to get out of their boats if you boat with people you trust, the person looking (scouting) will know if the rest of the group really need to see something.
Canopy Breezes Outdoors good thing this isn’t golf.
Like mentioned above. If you trust someone to give good beta after scouting. As well as trust that everyone in the group doesn’t always need to scout. Sometimes it makes more sense to have just one person get out and let the group know what it is. Although I was the only one who hadn’t run the section, the reason for needing to get out was just to see if there was wood in the rapid. Which we often need to do after big rains.
@@danejacksonkayak yeah im use to the big rains down here and scouting it for wood but everytime i let someone scout for me i usually end up not where i need to be but i jus feel safer when more than one person see what to do.
Caca water
First
You people that have nothing better to do than say first are being so disrespectful to the author and creator of the video. Do you boat, probably not! Do you watch the video, again, probably not.
Do everyone a big favor and just go away...
@@Michael65429 damn dude no need to be so salty