Coastals

High quality copies of the scouting videos above are posted on the FOLAR (Friends of the Lower Appomattox River) facebook page. These guys are very active in improving the Appomatox River from Lake Chesdin to Hopewell. They are looking for input from Coastals members as they are planning a new canoe...

I hope to share my 2 scouting videos much cleaner and in HD later on the coastal canoeist facebook page. I submitted a request to join. I shot these (2) scouting videos today (water at 4300) having not yet seen the actual videos that Ricky had taken yesterday. Amazing at how well they match up. I at...

The entry into the chute is directly into a fairly large 3-5' rolling wave ~ it is not shown well in any of the videos as it is being filmed from the back side. The largest lick in the center can be skirted to the outside as shown. I went down to Campbells bridge before work today and shot wider ang...

Can't wait to see pics / video or a trip report. A good friend of mine was hiking near by and called me this evening to say the river was raging.... he is hoping he got good some footage of you guys below Target and at the Whirl Pool. As I understand the new chute under the bridge had developed a pl...

Thanks for the video footage! Nice trip with great folks. Lots of fun and stilll a decent river level.

Jug handle video 1 http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/whitfimb/th_0314141046.jpg Jug handle video 2 http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/whitfimb/th_0314141047.jpg Jug handle video 3 http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/whitfimb/th_0314141048.jpg And last a quick 10 second blip of the pipeline rap...

Jug handle is clean ~ just a small strainer with trash on river right just before the elbow ~ pictured below. I had to hang from the trees to look up river but nothing I could see. . . http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/whitfimb/0314141044.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/whitfimb/03141410...

Sorry for the crappy camera equipment ~ my cell is a little dated. Abutment dam @ break (Friday morning @ 10am) ~26.5 mile MTB ride. http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/whitfimb/0314141013a.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/whitfimb/0314141009.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/whitfim...

Looking forward to meeting everyone. I'm local and familiar with the general features of the river but it has been a few years since I've paddled it in a Kayak. I attended the Coastal YMCA roll class on 3/1 to polish up my skills. Hoping for some good paddling this season. BTW: I'm driving a Chevy M...