only search W.R.W.W.           Pine Creek-Big South Fork   Class IV.6                                                                             Paddler Steve Krajewski avoiding Marie Antoinette   Photo by Jeff Moore     Water Quality (1 bad 3 good) Scenery (1 bad 3 good)               Class IV.6   Length : .95 miles Average Gradient : 230 ft per mile Maximum Gradient: 400 ft per mile     River Level needed:     Big South Fork: 125-400 c.f.s.     You will also need .75" of local rain , 2.0" is a big boy pants day.   After a big rain event you will have a 2 day window when the leaves are off of the trees.       Paddlers Gauge:   Right above the confluence to the Big South Fork on Pine Creek  is an old USGS Gauge.   ELF is 4.0 ft   Low is 4 1/2  ft   Med 5.0 ft   Med High 5 1/2 ft   Stupid 6 feet             Use our flowpage : )   http://waldensridge.boatingbeta.com/flows/   But note its a virtual gauge and its fairly accurate... BUT its to let you know if there is water in the region.   Please note , this creek runs as much as the Tellico during the winter months, but it never get the same amount of attention.   PLEASE REPORT THOSE VISUALS!       Paddler Steve Krajewski Rapid Potty Training Photo by Jeff Moore   Directions: Put-in.     Google Map: (Move your mouse around on the map )   Pine Creek of BSF   Here's a map showing the putin and takeout for Pine of the BSF   Created by Steve Krajewski "Here are the put-in and take out locations for Pine on a Google map.  You  could of course put-in further upstream but this put-in is where all the  gradient begins."                                                                                                                                                                                                            View Pine Creek of BSF in a larger map     The Run: From Steve Krajewski It's definitely the Northern Plateau's dirtier answer to Go Left. There are sieves left, center, and right as you proceed through the rapids. and a cave in the bottom of one them (Listed below in this picture).  A low water scout a few weeks after our run this summer revealed the center sieve (immediately to my left in the photo).  Paddler Steve Krajewski   Photo by Jeff Moore     I really enjoyed Pine but it is short and has a ton of sieves, undercuts, and caves. You drive right past it setting shuttle for BSF though, (unless you're goin' to Leatherwood Ford). It's right alongside O & W Road but you can't see the steep stuff from the road.   It's definitely the hardest run in the BSF area that I know of (probably period) that runs a regular basis - BSF spiked to 4000 the day we got it. Drainage is from the town of Oneida, so like the Crooked Fork, you probably don't want to put on immediately after the rain stops. You want to hit it a couple days later if its still got flow. There's a USGS gauge on it on river left at the bottom of the run - probably only a few hundred yards above the BSF confluence but the gauge is not online. Its a good reference for after your run though, or before a run if you're willing to put-in the work to check it (scope or binoculars maybe?).  Steve     Email from Mike Robertson:   Onieda, TN dumps their raw sewage straight into this creek. Just thought you might want to know : (                                                                                     Rapid Pine Perfection                   Paddler Steve Krajewski   (aka Kamode)         Photo by Jeff Moore