Paddling the Cape Fear River (NC)
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- čas přidán 19. 11. 2023
- Nathan and I are back on another overnight canoe trip down the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. The class 1 and 2 rapids were pretty tame this go around since the water levels were low but we had a blast anyway. This trip is what I think the essence of this channel embodies: finding the adventure around you! Hope you enjoy - Clint
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That looked like a great day in the canoe!!!
Sharing is caring :) What a fun trip so cool! man that sucks about the rod and tackle. (loved the caption styling)
Magical & wondrous!
Looks like a great trip 👍
Thanks for sharing this trip. Several years ago a friend of mine & I built a homemade "raft" out of scrap lumber and other parts. It ended up being 8' wide and 16' long. Floatation provided by 8 55 gallon plastic drums. We took the exact same route as you did here. Put in at Buckhorn Dam and went all the way to the take out site in Lillington. The most difficult part for the raft was within a mile of the Buckhorn Dam there is a rocky area from shore-to-shore. It has a nickname I forget but we had to manhandle the raft over every one of those rocks in the river... We also went to the right side at Lanier Falls which made for an exciting time. :) Next time I think we will go with a canoe as you did and take it a little easier.
Sounds like an awesome experience! We’d like to go again when the weather is warmer and run some of the rapids again with a little less worry about dumping/getting wet.
newSUB, good stuff, like the work
Nice trip, makes me miss nc. would love to see you run your canoe down some of the Haw some time.
Sounds like a future video for sure 🫡
@@ExploreYourLand also sorry to hear your fishing gear got stolen. what happened there?
@@spork1125 recently moved and had some items set out by the road in front of our house (waiting to go to storage) and someone came by while we were at the storage unit and took quite a few things 😩
@@ExploreYourLand Ouch, sorry to hear that. good luck getting it all replaced eventually.
Do you know if the water in this river is safe to drink (after filtering) and if you can eat fish from the river? Hoping to run ~100 miles of the cape fear this spring
that's a great question and I will admit that I don't know enough to give a confident answer. I do know that there are sources of PFAS in the Cape Fear Watershed (link below). I've done a little research to see if your typical "hiking" filters will remove those and I can't find much, but my hunch is no. Seems the best filters for that kind of removal are carbon and reverse osmosis filters which typically would not include many hand held filters.
It is possible that the short term effects from drinking/filtering this water for your trip would be very minimal but again that's not a professional opinion. If it were me, I would pack as much as I could and try to refill when possible at certain points along the way. There are many cities that the Cape Fear passes near and it might be possible to have some dropped off along the way or maybe a local homeowner wouldn't mind you stopping by their outside spigot... definitely will take some planning though. I would assume the fish are safe to eat in moderation.
Good luck with your trip - sounds absolutely amazing!
Link: www.rti.org/insights/piedmont-eastern-nc-why-pfas-my-water#:~:text=Impacts%20and%20Concerns%20of%20PFAS%20in%20Cape%20Fear%20Watershed&text=There%20is%20PFAS%20contamination%20in,of%20the%20drinking%20water%20intake.
Can wee just not holler and hay you hoo when filming
Life is too short to not express joy & excitement. I am sorry if it lessened the viewing experience.
Great 🛶 video.
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