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We need your pictures, and articles, you don't need to know HTML or other computer skills, submit your articles via email and we will post it here! As long as you know how to e-mail we can handle the rest..

Our goal is to get information out as easily as possible

 

Also you will get full credit with your name on the article just like you would in a magazine.

 

Please submit your pictures for picture of the month. We also plan on a photo gallery to make you and friends famous...well almost famous :)

 

 

We are needing a team of gauge checkers to help give us accurate readings for the flowpage. It's close but we want perfect. Please check out the Wood Report/River Level  section. Titled: River Levels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   

 
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                    2011 Gage Reading Contest and

WaldensRidgeWhiteWater Volunteer and User Appreciation Party

 

 

 

 

         Our 2011 Gauge Reading Contest and Party Sponsors

 

        

                    

                                                   

 

                                    

 

                                            

 

                                    

        

                                                 Terrapin Logo

 

                                           

 

 

                                                   

 

                                      

 

                                              

      

                                  

 

 

                                                   

 

                                                       

 

   First prize will be a flight over the West Prong and Raven's Fork area or a flight over the Tellico, Slickrock, Santeelah, and Snowbird area. The winner can choose on the day of the flight.

 

 

 

To see how our last Appreciation Party went and to see who the winners were who worked so hard for our flowpage to work click on the link below.

 

Appreciation Party

 

 

                                   

 

                                            

 

Directions to the party location..............................................

 

 

Still can't find the campground?  Plug this into Google Maps : Adventure Unlimited Ocoee Tennessee

 

Or for your GPS or Smartphone

 Adventure Unlimited

522 Highway 64

Ocoee, TN 37361-3626

(423) 338-4325

 

 

 

WaldensRidgeWhiteWater.com Gage Reading Contest Rules 2011

 

 

 

All the rules are subject to change. Due to us having missed something. We will announce any changes on our website.

 

Contest Starts OCTOBER 1st 2010

Contest Ends June 1st 2020

 

How to qualify:

 

Sign up on the internet board and post and you automatically are entered into the contest.

 

Prizes:

 

Prizes will vary from our sponsor’s donations and we will have a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

 

Rules:

You must post your levels on our gage reading forum on-line, emails, texts or posts on other internet boards will not qualify you.

You MUST provide the following intel to qualify.

 

 

 

You have to list:

 

Your user name:

Creek name and section.

Time and Date:

Gage used: if applicable

Rising or Falling on the gage:

 

POINT SYSTEM:

 

 

Timeframe:

 

If you post with-in a 3 hour window (We are rewarding cell phone and smartphone posts here)

You can have a friend post for you, as long as they give you the credit.

Example of a post on the board: Jim Smith (or Handle name) just called me and Pocket Creek is…and your friend posts the following.

 

Your user name:

Creek name

Time and Date:

Gage used: if applicable

Rising or Falling on the gage:

 

You will be given an additional 10 points if you make it within the timeframe and your visual for your internet posting.

 

We encourage you to use your Blackberry/I-Phone/Smartphone and post your own levels.

 

 

 

 

 

Creek Points:

 

The Creek is awarded on a point system listed below:

 

Math Example of the point system:

 

Example #1

 

Creek Point + Time Frame= Total Points

 

Roaring Creek 10 points + Gage posting within the 3 hour window 10 points = 20 points

 

Example # 2

 

Creek Point + not within the 3 hour window time frame= Total Points

 

Roaring Creek 10 points + Gage posting not within the 3 hour window are 0= 10 points

 

 

 

For a printed list of this to keep in your glove box or to make a paper airplane click below.

 

 

Download in Word    CLICK HERE

 

 

 

 Download in (PDF) : CLICK HERE:

 

 

 

 

 

Listed Creek Points:

 

 

 

The Walden's Ridge Creeks

 

  

 

 

  Basin Creek = 10 points Must base of White’s Creek takeout gage

 

  BearPen Branch= 5 points Must use Piney Take-out gage

 

  Big Possum Creek= 5 points Must use Little Possum gage/visual

 

  Board Camp Creek = 5 points Must use Soddy Gage

 

  Brush Creek= 15 points Must use Roaring Creek gage

 

  Brush Creek= 15 points Must use Coulterville gage

 

  Bumbee Creek = 5 points Must use Piney Take-out gage

 

  Cain Creek= 2 points Must use N. Chick Take-out gage

 

   Clear Creek= 5 points

 

  Coal Creek = 5 points Must use White’s Creek Take-out gage

 

  Conner Creek  = 5 points Must use Suck Creek gage

 

  Cooper Creek= 3 points Must use N. Chick Take-out gage

 

  Deep Creek=10 points must use Soddy Take-Out gage

 

  Dunlap Creek = 5 points Must use Piney Take-out gage

 

  Duskin Creek= 5 points Must use Piney Take-out gage

 

  Falling Water Creek=15 points Must use N. Chick Take-out gage

 

  Fall  Creek = 5 points Must use White’s Creek Take-out gage

 

  Henderson Creek= 3 points Must use Backvalley Rd. Take-out gage

 

  Little Piney Creek= 5 points Must use Piney Take-out gage

 

  Little Possum Creek= 5 points Must use L. Possum Take-out gage/visual

 

  Little Soddy Creek= 10 points Must use SoddyTake-out gage

 

  McGill Creek= 15 points must use the Coulterville Gage

 

  Mammy's Creek= 5 points Must use White’s Take-out gage

 

  Middle Creek  = 6  points must use Middle Creek Gage

 

  Moccasin Creek = 2 points Must use Piney Take-out gage

 

  Morgan Creek= 3 points 3 points Must use Backvalley Rd. Take-out gage

 

  Mullen's Creek= 10 points Must use Suck Creek gage to base off of.

 

  North Chick  = 1 points

 

  Paine Creek= 4 points Use Backvalley Rd. gage

 

  Piney Creek (Tiny Piney)  = 3 points Use Piney take-out gage

 

  Piney River = 3 points Use Piney take-out gage.

 

  Richland Creek= 3 points Use Backvalley  Rd. gage.

 

  Roaring Creek = 10 points Must use Coulterville gage

 

 Roaring Creek = 10 points Must use Roaring Creek gage

 

  Rock Creek= 7 points Must use take-out gage

 

  Rock House Branch=5 points must use Piney Take-Out gage

 

   Sawmill Creek = 10 points

 

  Soak Creek =5 points must use Piney Take-Out gage

 

  Soddy Creek=8 points must use SoddyTake-Out gage

 

  Stinging Fork=6 points must use Piney Take-Out gage

 

  Suck Creek =2 points must use Suck Creek gage

 

   Suck Creek North =4 points must use Suck Creek gage

 

  Suck Creek South =4 points must use Suck Creek gage

 

  White's Creek Upper =3 points must use Hwy 27 gage

 

  White's Creek Lower =3 points must use Hwy 27 gage

 

 

The Sequatchie Valley Creeks

 

 

  

 

  

 

  Big Brush Creek=10 points must use ladder at put-in for  gage

 

    Big Fiery Gizzard Creek=10 points

 

  Coal Bank (Hick's Creek) =10 points

 

  Griffin Creek=10 points

 

  Hicks Creek (Stone Coal Bank/Kelly Creek) =10 points

 

  Little Brush Creek=10 points Must use take-out gage

 

   Little Fiery Gizzard Creek=10 points

 

  Pocket Creek=15 points Must use put-in gage

 

  Woodcock Creek=15 points

 

  Savage Creek=1 point

 

 

 

 

The Lookout Mountain Creeks

  

 

  

 

  Allen Creek=15 points

 

  Bear Creek=3 points Must use put-in gage

 

  Daniel Creek=5 points Must use Bear put-in gage

 

   Dougherty Creek =0 point

 

    Gilreath Creek=8 points Must use put-in gage

 

   Gulf Creek =20 points

 

   RockTown (see Allen Creek)

 

   Rock Creek (Lula Lake) =5 points Must use take out gage on concrete bridge NOT the railroad bridge

 

 

 

 

The Obed-Emory Creeks

  



Bridge Creek (Obed-Emory)  =
5 points

Clear Creek-Upper Section (Obed-Emory) =3 points

Clear Creek Lilly to Jett and Jett to Nemo (Obed-Emory)  =
1 point

Clear Fork-Gatewood to Brewster (Obed-Emory)  =
5 points


Clear Fork- Brewster to Burnt Mill (Obed-Emory)  =5 points

Clear Fork-Burnt Mill Bridge to Confluence with New River =5 points

Crab Orchard (Obed-Emory)  =
10 points

Crooked Fork (Obed-Emory)  =
3 points


Daddy's Creek Canyon (Obed-Emory)  =3 points

Daddy's Creek Devils Breakfast Table (DBT) (Obed-Emory)  =3 points


Daddy's Creek -Upper Section  Center Bridge to Antioch (Obed-Emory) =
15 points

Daddy's Creek  Upper Section Near Hwy 127 to Hwy 68 (Obed-Emory) =20 points
 (Obed-Emory)


Emory River Canyon (Obed-Emory) =
5 points


Emory River  Nemo to Oakdale (Obed-Emory)  =
3 points


Hurricane Creek (Obed-Emory)  =
8 points


Island Creek (Obed-Emory)  =
5 points


Little Clear Creek (Obed-Emory) =
6 points CANNOT USE Clear Creek for a reading but use the Little Clear Creek gage.

 

Little Emory Creek (Obed-Emory)  =5 points


Mud Lick Creek (Obed-Emory)  =
1 points

Obed River Adam's Bridge Section (Obed-Emory)  =1
5 points

Obed River Devil's Breakfast Table D.B.T. Section (Obed-Emory)  =3 points

Obed River Gould's Bend Section (Obed-Emory)  =1
5 points

Yellow Creek -(Obed Emory) =10 points

 

 

 

The Western Plateau Creeks

  

 

Bee Creek (Cumberland Plateau) =5 points

Caney Fork-Clifty Bridge-to Bee Creek(Cumberland Plateau)
=5 points

Caney Fork-Bee Creek to Collins River(Cumberland Plateau) =5 points

Caney Fork -Rock Island(Cumberland Plateau) <15 points UGH!

Cane Creek-Fall Creek Falls Area (Cumberland Plateau)
=10 points

Clifty Creek (Cumberland Plateau)
=5 points

Obey East Fork(Cumberland Plateau)
=20 points


Obey West Fork (Cumberland Plateau) 
=20 points

Pine Creek Centerhill Lake (Cumberland Plateau) =5 points


Rocky River-Caney Fork(Cumberland Plateau) =5 points


Spring Creek(Cumberland Plateau) =5 points

Roaring River (Cumberland Plateau) =8 points

 

The Tellico, Hiwassee and Ocoee Creeks

  

 

 

Bullet Creek-Hiwassee Area=5 points

 

Citico Creek-Tellico Area=5 points

 

Coker Creek-Tellico Area=10 points

 

Conasauga River-Tellico Area=15 points

  

 

Doublecamp Creek Tellico (Citico) Area=5 points

 

Gee Creek-Ocoee Area=15 points

  

Goforth Creek-Ocoee Trib =5 points

 

Hiwassee River(Dries) Upper-Hiwassee Area=15 points

  

Hiwassee River-Hiwassee Area=<500000 points are you kidding me!

  

Jacks River-Ocoee Area=25 points

 

North River -Tellico Area=5 points

 

Ocoee River-Upper=<500000 points are you kidding me!

 

 

Ocoee River-Middle=<500000 points are you kidding me!

 

  

Ocoee River-Lower =<500000 points are you kidding me!

 

 

Santeetlah Creek Tellico Area=20 points

  

Tellico River-Upper=2 points

  

Tellico River-Lower=2 points

  

Turkey Creek-Tellico Area=6 points

  

Turtletown Creek- =10 points

 

 Wildcat Creek-Tellico Area=10 points

  

Wolf Creek-Hiwassee Area=10 points

 

Yellow Creek-Creek= 5 Points

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                 

 

 

 

Our hemlocks are dying on the ridge due to the woolly adelgid infestation. You can find out more at the Save Our Hemlocks website: http://www.saveourhemlocks.org/

 

To learn even more click here

 

The Picture below is depressing to say the least...

 

 

 

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Picture courtesy of KnoxNews.com

 

 

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