Weekend with Nate part 1- Frogtown and Dicks

After a good rain the night before,Nate Rozell and I met up in Dahlonega to go get on Frogtown for his first run on the creek.Arriving at the river we found it to be pretty low but still runnin and

about this time a group of 4 more kayakers showed up making us a group of 6.Nate and the rest of the group stayed on my tail as i led them through the first section of slides to the boulder rapid with a nice double boof line,then the shallows caught up with us. It was pretty scappy low going but everyone was just thinkin the 40-50 foot falls that lay in waiting downstream.I knew Nate was going to style it but wasn't sure about the other guys since i didn't know them.After a quick scout, one of the guys started portaging, and while Nate and the other 3 watched, i hiked up to go first.Hiking up to your boat when you are gettin ready to run a big drop is a whirlwind of mixed emotions going on thinkin about what you are about to do.On this day i felt good.I peeled out and without taking a stroke i began to float through the lead in with my eyes focused on the lip.I rolled over the lip ruddering into a late tuck just before i hit the pool which felt pretty good.Nate quickly followed with a picture perfect line into a nice tuck for the landing.After 2 of the 4 other guys portaged,we waited for the other 2 go.After 2 swims,a broken paddle,a busted nose, and a lot of line discussions we rolled on out to the T.O. We ended the day with a bomb down dicks creek just to do it.Stay tuned for more.