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Warren Creek |
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IV+ (V) |
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Put-In: |
Power Lines on Tom Vann's land |
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Gradient: |
295, 180, 100 |
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Take-Out: |
Cole City Creek |
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Length: |
3 from power lines to Cole City +
~4 on Cole City |
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Precip. Gages: |
Higdon? |
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Delorme Gazeteer: |
P. 21 A7/A8 |
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Primary Gage: |
None |
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Warren has been mentioned in the American
Whitewater Cole City Creek (GA) description for years. It starts in Alabama
and ends up in Georgia. It has a tiny watershed so I’d always dismissed it.
Your eyebrows might arch a bit when you looked at the topos.
“Punchbowl Gulf, eh?” Hmmm. In the fall of 2010 the nice hiking days were
upon us so I checked it out. As soon as you walk up to the obvious opening
drop at the power lines its ‘whoa baby, that’s a big one’. We chopped it out
a week after our hike. There were a ton of logs removed. The opening drop is indeed a
punchbowl vertical into a big deep pool. The entrance is somewhat twisty. The
rest of the run is tight IV+ with a one to three V’s. Unfortunately a lot of
clear cutting is going on just upstream of the Cole City Confluence. There
are now a big number of trees to get around there. You then paddle out on a
hopefully flooded Cole City Creek from Georgia into Tennessee. There are two access options at
the top. You can either put on from the road and deal with about half a dozen
logs, or ask permission to put on off AL 259 on Tom Vann’s land under the
power lines. Either way, the walk around the waterfall, should you choose not
to fire it up, is on river left. You will want to make the mover left far
enough upstream of the falls, so be on your toes. Level can be judged at the
outflow of the plunge pool from above. If there is just a bit of water
covering the rocks at the outflow, it should be at a runnable but low level.
More water will quickly get spicy. |
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Warren
Creek in a larger map