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Daddy's Creek Canyon
Obed-Emory System
Paddler Stephen Rayfield Photo By Berry Smith Level 1.65" Antioch Bridge
Water Quality (1 bad 3 good)
Scenery (1 bad 3 good)
Map:
Watershed Map (to find location and size of creek) Click Here
Special thanks to Steve Zerefos for making the map.
Daddy's Creek Canyon:
"Rattlesnake Section"
Shuttle Service:
For a fee of around $ 30.00 you can get a shuttle in the Obed-Emory area.
Contact Bryson Snodgrass at 865-617-3552
Length:
6.5 miles
Gradient :
Min:50 fpm
Max:80 fpm
Class IV.2
Video:
If you would like to see some nice video footage of the Obed-Emory streams and other East Tennessee streams please enjoy Chris Arp's website CLICK HERE.
Paddler Michael Abernathy photo by Barry Smith Rapid Rocking Chair (Log)
Level Needed:
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From Bill McKinney
Yellow Creek will be scrapy below 2".
The Rapid named Rocking Chair was/is also known as "Tree Rapid" for the tree above the middle drop. We felt you needed to be close enough to touch the tree to be lined up for the next drop. If you get to far left at the next drop you get a close up of the big undercut! In the second picture you can see a big log resting in the top of the tree.
At about 1.6' from the canyon to the takeout is prettymuch nonstop with 8 or more class III's, very nice.
Obviously all my opinions are from a non hair open boater's perspective.
Access Issues:
The road is closed between Jan-April and during closed hunts.
Contact the T.S.R.A. for further intel.
Remember to always use I-40 and Hwy 27 as your base guideline to get your bearings.
Put-in:
Get on Peavine Road, off of I-40, in about 10 miles you will come to the Antioch Bridge.
Take-out:
Take out #1
One alternative is D.B.T (Devil's Breakfast Table ) put-in. Just be mindful of the time of
year and contact the Catoosa Wildlife Management Area. It will be closed during hunting
season.
Take-out #2
Is the Obed Junction take-out which is brutal. You will have to paddle the rest of Daddy's
Creek for about 2.5 miles then hike out on a jeep trail. To me it's just not worth it. The
shuttle is from h_ll also.
Paddler Bill McKinley Photo by Barry Smith 5th rapid below Rocking Chair
Overview:
Daddy's Creek is usually someone's introduction to harder creeking after they have paddled the Upper
Tellico a couple of times. It's full of big boulders and one of the largest undercuts you will see
in the Obed-Emory system.It gets its Rattlesnake nickname name due to the rapids being laid out like a
snake.
The Creek:
You put on the Antioch Bridge and paddle for about 3.5 miles, you will notice Yellow Creek coming in
on your right. Let this be your benchmark. Get out here and stretch your legs. It's about to kick it
up a notch. For more action most paddle Yellow Creek into Daddy's.
Once in the canyon you will run the big three of the rapids.
Spike Rapid:Class III
Spike rapid , is solid straight-forward Class III chute rapid. You can scout it on river left. Then it
narrows up, and constricts into an ugly undercut. Most of the river is going under a house size boulder.
You can easily avoid by heading river left, and the trick. Is not to look at it. Looking at the undercut
will cause you boat to turn into the undercut. This will be the most mentally challenging rapid of the run.
"The middle section"/Boulder Section: Class IV
Here you will feel like you are slamon racing , you will move you boat through giant boulder fields. From
here this will be setting you up for fang rapid.
Fang Rapid: Class IV
Fang is a 5 foot drop , it's a straight forward drop. There is plenty of mank on river right, but keep your
line here. It's all straight forward.
Fang Rapid. Paddler Tera Wilson. Photo by Kemper Begley
Rocking Chair: Class III (broken apart) Class IV (Added up)
Rocking Chair appears when the gorge begins to opens up. It is a series of small drops, You will pick it
apart eddy by eddy ,heading river left to river rightish (more middle right) until you come to the biggest
drop which is at the end of the rapid.
Run out:
Now Daddy's calms back down and you will paddle out to the Devil's Breakfast table put-in.
Paddler David Evans photo by Barry Smith
***Warning label***
Whitewater
paddling is VERY Dangerous, and you should get
instruction before ever attempting even to paddle
flatwater. One of contributors to this web site
has personally helped bury 3 kayaking friends, this
isn't a joke. Whitewater paddling can ruin your
life through accidents and can effect your family
and friends throughout a lifetime.
The
information on this page is incomplete,
inaccurate, and very unreliable. Use
with caution. Whitewater paddling is a
dangerous sport and the information here is not a
substitute for actual knowledge and skill.
The authors are not liable for your actions. Go
ahead and kill yourself if you want to, but don't
blame others for you actions and decisions that you
will make on and off the river.
***Warning
label***
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/
