Pat Keller drops 80-foot Cane Creek Falls

[Chris Emery]

Pat Keller has nabbed a first descent of 80-foot Cane Creek Falls in Tennessee, according to his harrowing account of the run posted on the Shred Ready team blog.

He writes of the running the drop: "i went to vertical and pulled slightly on my right blade to set my angle at vert, then it felt natural to continue paddling down the waterfall. finishing on a left about half way down, i locked it up with my right blade forward and waited for the hit, kayak dead vertical. BOOM. one of those crumpling impacts where your mind has to reset."

LVMTV, or maybe, Spencer Cooke's new project, Rapid Transit, should have footage of the run posted sometime soon, according to Pat.

Cane Creek Falls is located in Fall Creek Falls State Park, a state park soutwest of Knoxville, that bosts six water falls - including 256-foot Falls Creek Falls, the highest water fall East of the Rocky Mountains.

Pat's run of Falls Creek Falls comes just a couple of months after Chris Gragtmans' first descent of 70-some-foot Desoto Falls in Alabama. What's happening down in the Southeast? One more big drop and we'll call it a trend.

(Though based on Pat's description - RE: "BOOM" - I'm not encouraging anyone to huck themselves over anything this massive. Another note: Pat doesn't explicitly claim this as a first descent in his post, but I could find no evidence of anyone else running the falls.)