Green River Expressway

I awoke to more rain. I knew I wasn't going to work and I didn't want to drive far, so I set off for the old Green river. A hazmat truck blew up on the Green River Gorge bridge a couple days ago, so I had to take a detour through Saluda. When I passed GRA I figured it was a good time to buy my very first Green Key. While doing so, I met this dude headed to the river. We got to the Green and it was pumping. We heard a rumor of 22 inches... We decided not to run it, but figured Big Hungry was going. So we hiked through the poison ivy fields to the put in. Ran the drops down to the Green and had a great time. Once at the Green we decided that we weren't quite finished boating and decided to give in to the temptation downstream. This is some of what we saw.

Eastbound I26 Green River Bridge. Exit 54 + Closed. Detour through Saluda.

Westbound is good to go.

First drop below second Dam on Big Hungry Creek.

Green River Narrows, Gateway to Gnarnia.

Frankenstein, Green River Narrows.

I don't even know what this is, maybe that's go left at the top? Green River Narrows, Pumping.

Here's a shot of the Notch.

This is normal Gorilla.

This is full on mach 10 express, water cannon Gorrilla. Notice the dry rock on river left at the bottom of the frame.

The Groove Tube was like a full on stand up barrell.

Here's a shot from the other day of normal Sunshine. Sorry about the water drop.

And here's Sunshine today! AHHHHHH!

We had such an awesome day today. We walked Gorilla and put back in at Powerslide, but we ran everything else. And it was freaking awesome. We passed the gauge at 28 inches around noon, the tributaries were pouring in, I don't know if it was going up or down, but it was just about as much fun as you can have in a kayak. It was my first time running Sunshine. So, So Good! I came around a corner through one drop, and the waves were so big, and so frequent and there were holes, it instantly made me think of the NF Payette. Just tons of water going so fast. Running a new creek and then full on big water Green was such an incredible experience. I don't think I got fired for missing work either!