Asheville Goes to Overflow
Video courtesy of Blaine Patrick
text by Bryan Owen
A few cold and snowy weekends ago I had the opportunity to paddle the Overflow Creek for the first time with a group of friends from Asheville. Its an incredible creek run with some really cool drops, and as we quickly learned its not a run to let your guard down as almost every drop has some type of hazard. We rallied down past Singley’s Falls to an inconspicuous drop called “Twilight” that has a pretty nasty cave on the right. Coming off the drop I was kicked right into the cave and for minutes battled to get the hell out of there. Thanks to my bros Will Lyons and James Kodaras for helping me out, and props to AW’s Jeff Paine for a really daring paddle recovery. There’s some good footage of Astral rescue jackets in action too, chekkit out:
Asheville Goes to Overflow from Blaine Patrick on Vimeo.
paddlers: Mark Miller, John Shannon, Billy Murphy, Toby MacDermott, Will Lyons, James Kodaras, Jeff Paine, Billy Jones, and Blaine Patrick
Keep it safe out there!
Bryan
