Name: Bill Patterson Location: Mcminnville TN Sex: Male Birthday: 1969-10-24 Height: 5'8" Weight: 195 Types of boats you paddle (eg. kayak, raft, C-1, squirt, etc.): Kayak - Response, Hurricane, Overflow, RPM, Stubby, Micro 240, Inazone 230 First Season (year): 1994 Favorite Class: IV Favorite Runs: Johnnies Creek, Little River Canyon, South Sauty, Chattooga IV

Personal info: I bought my first boat in the rossfire/Response era and spent my first summer on the Ocoee every weekend. I lived in the Macon Ga area and moved through the ranks within a couple of years. I literally started out with a William Nealy book and a couple of others (Racer X included) that were willing to try some pretty stupid stunts unguided. I was probably somewhat of a hairboater for some time but age, responsibility and not enough boating time have caused me to downgrade primarily to the class III-IV stuff. I do very little playboating but once the creeks run I get fired up. I also lived in Central Alabama where I spent my summer boating weekends on the Coosa and winters in the Sand Mountain/LRC area. I moved to Louisville, Ky and then Southern Alabama.  I had a job that involved too much travel and took the wind out of my sails when it came down to boating time.  My wife and I have just moved to McMinnville TN area where I am looking forward to getting back into the ring on some Plateau area stuff.   Below is a list of some runs that I have made. Max Classes may have been at high water (or maybe even flood).  Don't let the list fool you, it contains a whole bunch of things that would be over my head these days.
 
River & Creek Classification List     Max Class Overall Run     State 
1 Oakmulgee (AL) I I AL
2 Cahaba Harvick II II AL
3 Chattahoochee II II GA
4 Coosa II II AL
5 Hiwassee II II TN
6 Little Cahaba II II AL
7 Six Mile Creek II II AL
8 Tuckasegee II II NC
9 Chestnut II II AL
10 Boulder Creek III III CO
11 Cahaba Upper III II AL
12 Caney Fork(R.isl)III III TN
13 Cartacay III II GA
14 Clear Creek III III TN
15 Clear Fork III III TN
16 Locust III II AL
17 Mulberry III II AL
18 Nantahala III II GA
19 Oakmulgee (GA) III II GA
20 Obed III III TN
21 Ocoee Lower III III TN
22 Ocoee Upper III III TN
23 Yough Lower III II PA
24 Amicolola Lower IV III GA
25 Animas Town IV III CO
26 Bear IV III AL
27 Big Hungry IV IV NC
28 Big South Fork IV III TN
29 Blackoak IV IV AL
30 Caney Fork UpperIV IV TN
31 Chattooga S III IV III GA
32 Gauley Lower IV IV WV
33 Green Upper IV II NC
34 LRCChairlift IV IV AL
35 Meadow Middle IV IV WV
36 New Thurmond IV III WV
37 Nolichucky IV III NC
38 North Chick IV IV TN
39 North River IV III TN
40 Pigeon Drys IV IV NC
41 Potato Cr Lower IV III
GA 42 Potato Cr Upper IV IV GA
43 Poudre Canyon ( Upper and Lower Mish) IV IV CO
44 Short IV IV AL
45 South Sauty IV IV AL
46 Tellico Upper Upper IV III TN
47 Alcovy V III GA
48 Cain Creek V IV TN
49 Chattooga S IV V IV GA
50 French Broad NF V V NC
51 Gauley Upper V IV WV
52 Green Narrows V V NC
53 Johnnies V IV AL
54 LRC Suicide V V AL
55 LRCUpper Two V IV AL
56 New Gorge V IV WV
57 Overflow V V GA
58 Tallapoosa V III AL
59 Tallulah V IV GA
60 Tellico Ledges V IV TN
61 Tellico Middle/Lower V III TN
62 Wautauga V IV NC
63 Wolf V IV AL
64 Elkhorn II II Kentucky
65 Russell Fork V V Kentucky/VA
66 Cataract Cayon IV V IN (First Descent of Lower Cataract Falls)