Greeter Falls

After all the tornadoes blew through the south east around Chattanooga, I knew something was going to be running.  I was about to go to bed, wondering when Nick was going to message me and tell me where we were kayaking.  He messaged me at 12 that night and told me to meet him at Greenlife at 7:30 and that we were going to Greeter Falls.  I show up at 7:30 and nobody is there yet...of course.  A person drives up next to me and smiles and waves as if he knew me.  He told me that he was a photographer for nooga.com, a new website in Chattanooga for local news and other stories.
After the massive storms that had rolled through the day before, Greenlife had no power and was closed.  So much for my 24 oz. maté that usually gets me through the day.  We drove to Greeter where me and Nick geared up.  I had only seen this waterfall one time in a video and wondered if I would even run it.
We walked to the waterfall, took one good look at it, and decided it was good to go.  Nick ran it first and had a good line.  I ran it second and had a good line too.  Nick then decided he wanted to run it again and did, styling the line.  Nick lost his paddle and went around the bend to go get it.  Right about that time, a park ranger showed up and was pissed to say the least.  He said he could arrest us for this and that he had pulled bodies out of the waterfall himself.  He told us we had to leave right then.  I ran downstream and helped Nick rope his boat out.  We walked up the trail with the park ranger to the parking lot.  The ranger took our license numbers on both of our licenses and told us to leave.  The park ranger was nice to us but in the future I don't think he will be.  Be careful if you decide to go there and run it.  A stealth mission is your best option.
Overall I had tons of fun at Greeter Falls.  It was the highest waterfall I have run so far but I'm sure there are many more to come in the future.  The one question I still have, does Chattanooga have the highest concentration of runnable waterfalls in the south east?

Click here to see the article on nooga.com

Here are some pictures James Guenther took from nooga.com:

Hiking In

About To Run It

All In a Day's Work When You Live In Chattanooga!