Join the Nantahala Outdoor Center to celebrate 40 years this June! They have planned an evening of music, movies, and maybe even a teary-eyed speech or two down by the river.

Come out in the afternoon and test your mettle with the first annual Nantahala River Raft Race, or meet us at 5:00pm at the event tent near the Founder’s Bridge for the start of the evening’s festivities. Stay late and enjoy live music, BBQ, and a paddling vid premier.

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Nantahala River, North Carolina

Join the NOC to celebrate a great 40 years on and off the water. The day’s festivities will include a raft race on the Nantahala, live music, BBQ, words from NOC’s founders, and a video screening.

The inaugural Nantahala River Raft Race will test which four-person crew is really the fastest on the Nantahala. Families, friends, outfitters, raft guides, and river rats are welcome to participate in this race to win Gorge bragging rights for the rest of the summer.

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Nantahala River, North Carolina

Whitewater slalom is about precision paddling and pushing your skills to the next level. Looking to mix up your regular paddling routine? We have just the thing: a challenging course set on un-intimidating whitewater.

Come by yourself, with your club, or with a couple of friends. The Canoe Club Challenge is open to everyone, and you’ll have so much fun, you won’t even notice all the new skills you’re learning.

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World Kayak’s Hometown Throwdown comes to the Nantahala. Come try out the newly constructed 2013 Wave. All ability levels are welcome!

Get Out and Play!

For those who want to simply have fun and encourage each other to step up their playboating skills, the format of a Hometown Throwdown is quite straightforward: Two rides and you go home. Points are awarded for EVERYTHING! Front surfs, loops, and space chickens all count and everyone has a shot. This is NOT a pro event, but we do invite pros to come out and coach and score…don’t be surprised to see one or two hanging around.

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Events will include:
Friday- JUNE 22 (Clayton, GA)
BBQ Street Dance and Drive-in movie showing of Deliverance @ Tiger Drive-in
Deliverance, Redemption & Salvation Art Opening @ Timpson Creek Gallery
Ronny Cox Band Musical Performance @ Rabun County Civic Center

Saturday- JUNE 23 (Long Creek, SC)
Adventure Race organized by Go Green Events
All day Music Festival with musical guests:
-The Mosier Brothers
-Shannon Whitworth
-Nitrograss
-Conservation Theory
-Heather Luttrell
-Timberline
-Sol Driven Train
-Michelle Malone

Festival Village & Artist’s Market @ Chattooga Belle Farm
Ronny Cox – “Dueling Banjos: The Deliverance of Drew” Book Signing @ Timpson Creek Gallery
Guided Eco Hikes
Opportunities to paddle the Chattooga River
Horseback Riding opportunities

Sunday – JUNE 24
Sunrise Worship Service @ Tallulah Falls
Guided Eco Hikes @ Tallulah Falls Gorge Basin
Make Shift Boat Race @ Tallulah Falls Lake
Lakeside Pavilion Picnic @ Tallulah Falls Lake Pavilion
Sunday Gospel + Medley of Era Music @ Rabun County Civic Center
Opportunities to paddle the Chattooga River
Horseback Riding opportunities

Nantahala River, North Carolina

NOC will host a late-morning downriver race on August 18th, for the Canoe Club Challenge Final. Register and start at the Forest Service Launch Site on Wayah road.

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Nantahala River, NC

The Nantahala is going big-time this September 7-9th, as top international paddlers arrive to compete in the 2012 Freestyle World Cup Final. This winter’s enhancement to the Nantahala freestyle feature, including the construction of the 2013 Wave have made the Nantahala a legitimate destination for the world’s elite freestyle competitors, and this summer, they’re headed here to try out the wave prior to next year’s World Championship.

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The FINAL HTDD event at the Nantahala will be the innaugural Hometown Throwdown Southeast Championship!  World Kayak began as a grassroots effort to share the sport of whitewater kayaking with the public. Starting with only 32 events 6 years ago, it has now grown into a 150+ event program while still remaining in touch with its roots. The heart of these events is the Hometown Throwdown. Hometown Throwdowns are fun, easygoing events that help spark interest for those that are new and those that have never tried event style kayaking.

In the six years of growing this grassroots event series, we have added events in additional regions and a points system.  This year we have grown again in the southeast to add Ocoee events!  This gives the Southeast a total of 5 event regions & 22 total events  within a 3 hour or less drive time from each locale: Nantahala, Nolichucky, Ocoee, Pigeon, & the USNWC!

The HTTD Southeast Championship will offer participants the extra opportunity to compete on different features, experience multiple disciplines of event style paddling, and have way more fun!!!  We also believe that this will be a great way for participants to meet more paddling friends by traveling around to the different regions to compete (Kind of a “Tour de Southeast” for whitewater)! Not to mention… if you win one of the classes, you will have bragging rights for being one of the Southeast Champions!

This event will count for double points in the HTTD Southeast Championship Series Points System!

Competitors are to select at least TWO events in each of the Nolichucky, Nantahala, USNWC, Ocoee, & Pigeon Event Series to participate in a combined total of TEN events.  Competitors can compete in as many events as he/she wishes in each region’s event series, but only the competitor’s best 2 finishes in each regional event series will count in the Championship Series Points System.

CLICK HERE to download the complete

HTTD Southeast Championship Schedule

***Mark your calendar for the events you want to attend & look for more details coming soon on each event in the WORLDKAYAK Regions website…

Competition Format & Rules

All competitors who wish to compete in the HTTD Southeast Championship must sign up to GET RANKED ($10.00 donation to World Kayak) on worldkayakblogs.com/throwdown website.

The HTTD Southeast Championship will use the existing World Kayak Amateur Points System to compute points for each competitor.

Competitors are to register in ONE of the following 8 classes for the entire Championship Series of events:

K-1 Men’s Novice
K-1 Men’s Intermediate
K-1 Men’s Expert
K-1 Women’s Novice
K-1 Women’s Intermediate
K-1 Women’s Expert
C-1: Single blade paddler (open boat or kayak)
Juniors: Youth kayaker age 17 or below

HTTD Southeast Championship Coordinator:
Wesley R. Bradley
423-647-1321
wesley@worldkayak.com