Nolichucky River Rafting

My mom came up to Asheville for a little visit.  Loving paddling like she does, we came up w/the plan to take her out on one of our rivers.  I wanted to show her how we do it up here, rapids and all.  The Nolichucky w/it's deep gorge like setting in the midst of the beautiful Apalachian mountains seemed like the perfect fit.   Since she has never done anything like this before and being a river w/class II-V rapids (large rapids) we felt like a professionally guided trip would be the best thing to do.  We decided to do an all day trip, 6hours w/ a short stop in the middle for a lunch break on the beach.  It rained for most of the day but that just made the trip feel more 'real'...more of an adventure.   I almost tumbled out a few times, Pete saved a guy from falling out and Mom was tossed around a good bit, but hey.. just a normal day out on the rapids.  Good times were had by all!! 

Our beach lunch break...and our river guide sitting next to Mom..