Kayaking The Savage River: Featuring Piedmont Dam AKA Swinging Bridge Dam, at 1,000cfs

Kayaking & Shredding The Savage River: Piedmont Dam AKA Swinging Bridge Dam/Garrett Bridge with: ‪@hipernet‬, ‪@mikelzinn1085‬, ‪@FrankensteinDIYkayak‬, & ‪@PyranhaKayaks‬

What is your Savage story?

The "rocket ride" of the year...good times with great friends! What is your favorite Savage memory? Please comment if you have a good story to tell, or would be interested in joining up for various trips, races, or collaborative movie making fun. Or if you're looking for a down to earth, positive energy supportive crew to join, please reach out, and welcome aboard! We also run unscheduled runnable releases too, often during winter, down to 370cfs, and down to 400cfs for the North Branch.

American Whitewater provides the following descriptive information for Piedmont Dam: "The standard line is to run the cut out slot on the river left side of the dam. It is a sloping tung of water that ends in a hole that has a tendency to flip boaters and even backender creek boats. The more challenging and interesting lines are on river right...Care must be taken, if you go too far right or are sideway..." - https://www.americanwhitewater.org/co...

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Please comment if you:
are looking for a crew to join up with
would like to join up for local and/or regional kayaking or whitewater rafting trips/festivals
are interested in attaining in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
are in search of or have kayaked any rare running microcreeks, such as those of Harpers Ferry, WV (e.g. Piney Run AKA "Crazy Creek" and Stikey's Creek)
compete in whitewater kayak racing & would like to join up
would like to team up for whitewater photography and movie making projects

Details:
Trip Length: 4.4 Miles
Piedmont Dam: 0.85 miles from the Put-In
Class: III
Elevation/Avg. Gradient:
Piedmont Dam: 1,227ft.
Put-In: 1,337ft.
Take Out: 961ft..
Avg. Gradient: 85 feet/mile
"The average gradient for the Savage River's whitewater section is 75 feet/mile (1.4%), with sections at 100 feet/mile (1.9%)"*
Level (flow rate): 3.34ft./1,020cfs
Water Temperature: 50°F
Stream Gauge: USGS 01597500 SAVAGE RIV BL SAVAGE RIV DAM NEAR BLOOMINGTON, MD
Location
39°30'03.5"N 79°06'52.3"W (39.500972, -79.114521)
Garrett County Maryland: Swanton, MD to Bloomington, MD
Savage River State Forest: South Savage Mountain Natural Area
Appalachian Plateau Province
Appalachian Mountain Range
Allegheny Mountains
Allegheny Front
Big Savage Mountain
Featured Kayaks:
Pyranha 12R
Pyranha Scorch ‪@hipernet‬
Pyranha Ripper ‪@mikelzinn1085‬
Dagger Green Boat ‪@FrankensteinDIYkayak‬
Cataraft: NRS STAR Slice
Print:
Grove, Ed; et al. (1994). Appalachian Whitewater, Volume II: The Central Mountains. Menasha Ridge Press, Birmingham, Alabama. pp. 134–7.
Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 555.

Savage River Release Schedule: https://www.nab-wc.usace.army.mil/nab...

Featured Scenes:
The Savage River 00:00
How to Run Piedmont Dam 0:45
Kayaking Piedmont Dam 1:56
Shredding Piedmont Dam 4:17
What It Is All About 5:49
Mapping & History of the Savage River 6:52

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