Asheville Area Boating Beta Page (Kayaking and Canoeing Information), Welcome to boatingbeta.com. This site provides information (i.e., beta) on the most popular whitewater runs, park-and-play spots, squirt boating destinations and flat water paddled by Asheville, NC canoeists and kayakers. You'll find real time streamflows, rainfall totals and weather forecasts, predicted flows on ungauged runs, information on interpreting flows and rainfall totals, river descriptions, directions from Asheville to the put ins and take outs, a searchable photo archive, camping, ea.