Bald River IV

Suislide & Buying the Farm - Brian "Cock-O" Collins & Mark Cumnock (Tellico was 4.5 ft)

Bald River Falls VI

Corran Addisson (The ONLY claimed descent of this drop) "I assume you ran Bald River Falls on the Rt somewhere at high water? How did the run turn out?" Corran: "Right banking turn, not super high water but high enough. Broke the boat, and buggered my ankles. This was pre-bulkhead days, but the pyranha kayaks had them, thank god."

Basin Creek/Basin Falls

Waldens Ridge, near Rockwood Tennessee
First Descent
Andy, Louie, John, Boone, Tom Window

Big Creek (Savage Gulf)

First Descent
Ron Stewart and Chuck Estes
Early 1990's

Upper Big Creek

Chip Collins and friends (inflatables late 80's or early 90's)

Roger Derrough and Chris Bell in hardboats (1993)

Brush Creek

A tributary of Roaring Creek
First Descent - Jim Little (OC-1), Mike "Louie " Lewis (OC-1), Steve Smith, & Mark Cumnock

Big Brush Creek

First Descent
Ron Stewart, Mike Culberson, Terry Smith, Doug Wellman. Initially attempted by Ron Stewart on a solo mission but stopped short after a bad pin required that he cut his spray skirt in order to escape from the subsurface pin

Little Brush Creek

First Descent
Ron Stewart (solo expedition-vision quest)

Burgess Falls

First Descent
Clay Wright and Howard Tidwell

Cane Creek (Falls Creek Falls)

First Descent
Terry Smith, Doug Wellman, Ron Stewart
(One group hiked out due to no water after running the
rapids)

Cane Creek Falls

First Descent: April 5, 2008
Pat Keller,
Read his story on the first descent

Cain Creek

North Chickamauga Creek Trib.
First Descent:
Ron Stewart, Scott Shoup (C1), and one other boater ? , the group ran everything but Vortex. (The run had been attempted prior but was no where near successful)
Shortly after First Descent: Ron Stewart, Doug Wellman, Terry Smith, Andy Turner made a run
Vortex (left line) Clay Wright (was run earlier but resulted in a pin)
Vortex (right line) Jonathon Calardy and Mark Cumnock tag teamed Vortex, Mark went first, Jonathon Calardy holding the back of his boat, then Mark held Jon's boat, Karen Morton was setting safety. Very minimum water level. The group said they figured out the rock shelf on the bottom was actually smooth, and the dry boof line was not grabbie. Vortex (right line) normal flow: Clay Wright maybe?

Coal Bank Creek

Soddy Creek Trib.
First Descent
Tim Williams, Jonathan Clarty (Ron Stewart gave his paddle to Jonathan on this one otherwise he would be on this listing as well.)

Coker Creek

First Descent
Mike "Louie" Lewis (OC-1), Brian " Cock-O" Collins, and Mark Cumnock

Dan Grey and Tom Tohill later came and ran to the Hiawassee Dries.

Cooper Creek

First Descent
Tim Williams and Mark Lyle

Last Temptation Chris Young and Tony Robinson

Deep Creek

First Descent Winter 1995 - Andy Bridge (C-1), Mike "Louie" Lewis (OC-1), Bailey "Big Water" Johnson (OC-1), Jim Little (OC-1), Brian "Cock-O" Collins, and Mark Cumnock

Duskin Creek

First Descent Spring 1992
Tom Tohill & Dan Grey

Falling Water

First Descent
Tim Williams and Bill Morwinkle
Mark Lyle was the first to run several of the rapids below the 1 large waterfall just below Dragon's Lair (mandatory portage, river left).

Foster Falls

Jessie Sharp

Greeter Falls

First Descent
Harry Fields, Dave Grove, Seth Warren

Griffin Creek

First Descent: (spring of 1995?)
Tom Bowen, Tim Williams, and Bill Morwinkle.
(goes underground)

Hancock Creek

First Descent
Tom Towhill, Dan Gray & company

Henderson Creek

First Descent Spring 1991
Mark Cumnock, Doug Wellman, Terry Smith, Ron Stewart, Alex Harvey & Francis Mallory
Fire Escape: Howard Tidwell
Spinal Adjustment: Ron Stewart
First Canoe Descent (approx. 1993): Mike"Louie"Lewis

Kick Your Dog Falls (Lynn Camp Prong)

Leroy Leonard and Brian Nicholson early 90's, Leroy named the drop

Bailey Johnson (1992/3) close second/maybe first

Flood Stage: Brian Sandlin, Ben Hayes Friberg(1998) 

McGill Creek

First Descent
Jeff Richards (OC-1), Mike "Louie " Lewis (OC-1),
Steve Smith, & Mark Cumnock

Middle Creek

First Descent:

Mark Lyle, Jeff West, Keith Liles, Brady, (Pablo?).

Soon after: Keith and Clay Wright

Superman Slide - 1st Lane Rankin 2nd Ben Friberg
Shoot Me in the Face with a 0.09 - 1st Ben Friberg 2nd Lane Rankin

Mill Creek Falls

Crab Orchard Creek trib. (March of 1994)
First Descent

Carl Malatin

Morgan Creek (a.k.a. - North Pole)

First Descent:
Ron Stewart, Tim Williams, Andy Turner
First Descent: (OC-1) Mike "Louie" Lewis

Soon After: Woody, Bo Wallace, Francis, Doug Welman, Ron Stewart,Terry Smith etc) knocked off most of the big ones (including Chile Pepper and decap)

Later Group Dale Johnson(OC-1) and Jeff Richards(OC-1) - This group knocked out the remaining 4 unrun drops (documented on Vertical Addiction)
Snow Falls: Clay Wright 1993/4

Mullens Creek

First Descent - very early attempt by Tom Towhill & Dan Gray. This group ran very little.
Tim Williams cleaned it up at a later date.

North Chickamauga Creek

First Descent
Roger Scott, Ken Strickland, Tom Parson

Paine Creek

Richland Creek Trib.
First Descent Spring 1991
Mike Cawood (OC-1) & Mark Cumnock

Pine Creek

Located near Smithville
First Descent 2001
Clay Wright and Christie Dobson
Pine Creek Falls (30 feet) - Clay Wright

Little Piney Creek

First Descent 1991
Mark Cumnock, Mike Cawood (OC-1)

Pocket Creek

First Descent : April 1994

Todd Gould , Justin Howard and Mark Cumnock

First OC-1 Decent(couple weeks after 1st D) Jim Little

-The Creek was left alone for many years till Jonathon (a.k.a. Lothar) Clardy and Tom Bowen came
behind 1st D., about 6 years later, at high water. Tom
hiked out and Lothar told him he should have done the same.

Pole Bridge Creek

First Descent
Terry Smith, Doug Wellman, Ron Stewart

OC-1 Louie?

Little Possom Creek

First Descent Spring 1993
Bill Thornton, Wade Verbal, Todd Gould K-1Steve Frazier (OC-1), Jim Little (OC-1), & Mark Cumnock

2 attempts : flash flood on the first trip, 3 lost and destroyed, sent Mark to hospital

Big Possom Creek

First Descent Summer 1994
Justin Howard & Mark Cumnock

Richland Creek

Hike to dam
First Descent
Doug Wellman Early 1991?
Ron Stewart Early 1991?
First descent OC-1 Spring 1991: Mike Cawood

Roaring Creek

First Descent
Jeff Richards (OC-1), Mike Cawood (OC-1), Steve Smith, & Mark Cumnock

Rock Branch

Mike “Louie” Lewis(OC-1)
Chad Lewis (C-1)
Mark Cummnock  (K-1)

Rock Creek

Roger Scott & maybe Tom Parson

Rock Island Falls

1992/93ish
Clay Wright and Tracy Clapp

Rock Island "Sieve City"

Clay Wright
mid 1980's

Savage Falls

First Descent 1998
Clay Wright and Chris Young

Savage Gulf

First Descent
Doug Wellman, Scott Shoup, Tim Williams
(group hiked out due to no water below top section. This
run now illegal)

Big Soddy

First Descent
Ron Stewart, Doug Wellman, Scott Shoup, Andy
Turner and Chuck Estes (group ran everything except for 3 drops, everything has been run since).

Little Soddy

First Descent

Mark Cumnock

Stinging Fork

First Descent
1994 - Mark Cumnock, Bailey "Big Water" Johnson (OC-1), Jeff Richards (OC-1)

The falls was run as far back as the mid 1970s by Mark Hall, Patrick McNally, and Alan Singley. A photo of their run graced the wall of Bruce Hare's Chattooga Whitewater Shop for many years.The classic picture of Stinging Fork Falls was of Pat McNally, taken by Singley. Pat, Alan, and Mark Hall were there in the mid 70's in the middle of winter, at REALLY high water. They couldn't run anything else, so they hiked in to SF. They all ran it multiple times, and Alan even has a picture of Mark running it backwards, though unintentionally. There is a not-so-good picture of Alan running it around somewhere.

During the 80's A group form Kentucky hiked in there to shoot video for the Whitewater bluegrass fest. Robin fractured his back when he, Bobby Gaar, Danny Tipton and I were there in 1983. Robin landed flat, broke his back, bed ridden for months. A better write up will probably be in Charlie Walbridge's safety archives.

Suck Creek

First Descent (Feburary 1989)
Ron Stewart and Daniel Liberman

3 drops walked were run at a later date by Scott Shoup, Andy Turner and Danny Smith

South Suck

First Descent 1995 or 1996
Clay Wright

Tellico River

Baby Falls:
1973/4 - Doug Woodward (kayak) from Georgia

Turtletown Creek

First Descent Early Spring 1995
Brian Collins & Mark Cumnock

Waterloo Falls

Waterfall, approx 30 feet in height
Located on Spring Creek
First Descent - Unknown

West Prong

Picnic Tables to Overlook late 80's - Tom Visnius or Eric Young(circa 1986)
Trailhead to Picnic Tables 1993/4 - Jeff Robinson, ?
Roadprong - Travis Richardson (solo/vision quest)
Skyline Falls - Travis
U-Turn- Chris Young