Randall Gammill, Lance Jones, Chris Anderson, Cowper Chadbourn, Bill Herring, Steve Robertson, Zack Smith and Billy Williams.

The first 0.75 miles consisted of a flat water warm up with a few riffles, followed by a couple of actual small rapids. Five Mile Creek enters on river right 0.5 miles into the run and doubles the flow. Then the first notable drop. "Warm-up" starts with small holes and waves leading to a small slide over some smooth boulders turns to the left and over a ledge hole. Now the meat begins. The next drop is the 'Possum Pinch', fast current that is pinched into a slot just a few inches wider than a boat.

The pool below the pinch signals the big 5. The first drop, "Road Kill", is a short complex drop of about 12-15 feet, which ends in a nasty slot on the left channel. The bottom of the slot contains a very potential vertical pin. Option is to portage over the right ledge and run the right 'sneak' channel or portage left. The second drop is a tight sluice into an S-turn. Enter the sluice, avoid the first pin rock turn hard right over the drop and avoid the second pin rock, then finish with a hard left over the bottom of the drop. The tough part is getting right in the sluice, staying left leads into a nasty undercut. Portage the right part the sluice and run the lower part. The third drop, "Playing Possum", is immediately below. A huge undercut boulder forces the current far left and creates an eddy to the right. Watch out for the vortex sucking things under the boulder. A hard turn to the right around the boulder and off a steep 6 ft drop, followed with a small drop into a small pool. At the top of this drop, the current pushes left with much more force than it appears, complicating the need to stay on line over the drop. Best portage route is on the left. The forth drop, "Possum Stew", is a long complex rapid with several rocks and holes to negotiate with a 5-6 foot drop in the middle. Portage is on the right. This drop feeds directly into the last of the Big 5, the "Possum Hole". Large boulders block the path. The left line is through a pyramid shaped hole (at the right water level). The right line requires a hard 90+ degree turn to the left in front of a very nasty undercut slot. (This is one of the worst slots, this boater has ever seen). Portage is high on the rocks on the right.

The creek continues intensity with some nice rock jumbles, slides, and ledges. Notable drops are: "Boof and Slide", boof to the left and ride the slide off the curler in the middle; "Snake Eyes", immediately below is a slide down the right into a nice surf hole. Watch out for the hole on the left side of the slide; and "Possum Pie", a complex drop (boof-slide, dodge, line up, over the 6ft narrow drop, avoid the tree and rock partially blocking the outflow).

The gradient levels off down to the confluence with Raccoon Creek. Raccoon contains some good surf waves and decent current in the pools then joins the Beech Fork for some nice volume, usually at or near flood level when Possum Walk is running. Several big waves and big pools and one monster hole near the end. Finish with about a 3/4 mile paddle across the NE corner of Greers Ferry Lake to the Hwy 263 bridge.

Like other low-volume creeks, meaningful ratings are difficult to establish on the accepted International scale. At lower levels, the creek will seem like a very technical Class III/IV, with much rock bashing, scraping, and some portages. At higher levels, several rapids are expected to become solid Class V or VI.