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Tubing on the Chestatee River Two weekends ago we went up to the mountains, just outside of Dahlonega GA, and floated the Chestatee River using inner tubes, various pool toys and one super-cool inflatable seahorse. We even rigged up an inner tube to carry a cooler of beer and dragged an extra inflatable boat to pick up trash (as well as hold our own).

It was great fun. We found a rope swing where you could climb up about six feet on the bank and swing out over the river and drop into a nice pool that was plenty deep for the landing.

What made the whole thing possible is that my wife’s parents own a cabin in the area, which they are kind enough to let us use.

Since this weekend was my father-in-law’s birthday, we decided to head up and do another river run.

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07.27.08 // Mountain Cabin // Dahlonega // Georgia, US

Rope Swings and River Floats

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