Big South Fork, KY

Well, another trip to Kentucky. My buddy and I went down for two nights on the river in our kayaks. We got to the Blue Heron Campground Thursday night and got rather tooled with beers, whiskey, and weed. We didn't get up bright and early the next morning, but we weren't on much of a schedule. We put in at Station camp (streamflow was about 900 cfs at the Leatherwood gauge) around 2:00. We had started drinking again and after about an hour we found a really nice spot and decided to call it a day. We tried out luck at fishing with no success. We got camp set up just before the rain started. It rained all night, but only came down really hard (with a little hail) for about five minutes. We had gotten the fire going before the rain so we stayed pretty warm. We also had a shower radio to provide us with some tunes. Saturday we got up and paddled about 20 miles. The section of the river between Station Camp and Blue Heron is full of nice class I and II rapids, perfect for out 14 foot kayaks. The temperature was a little cool and the sun was hiding most of the day, but a very nice day of paddling. We stopped to camp a few miles past Blue Heron. Sunday we got up and paddled the last 5 miles to the car. After about 2 miles past Blue Heron there are no more rapids and today was all flatwater. There are also some fishing boats cruising through the area past the rapids, so if you're looking for solitude it's probably best to go no further than Blue Heron. The only downside to the trip was when we got back to my buddy's car we discovered some hillbilly motherfucker had broken in and rifled through all his stuff. Luckily they only took the change out of his cup holder, a little tool kit, and a watch. The watch was a bad loss, but he had alot of other stuff in there they didn't take, including the car itself (the keys were in the console).