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Aire Waves
Leeds Canoe Club Blog. We paddle... lots!
Airewaves used to be Leeds Canoe Club's magazine letting people know what the club was upto. Its quite hard work pulling together a publication letting people know what the club is doing and publishing dates in advance is always hard as things tend to change. Step forth the blog.. Push button publishing for the masses. So here is the idea a few people in the club take it in turns to write up trips and talk about things in the club.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005SawMill Cateract..
Rosanna
After the first great days of paddling we went off to discover the Rosanna and the Trisanna which form the Sanna which flows past our campsite. We drove up to St Anton to get on to the Rosanna. As we got on to the Rosanna the King Fishers canoe club from Oxford turned up on mass to paddle the river. As it was first thing in the morning the mist was still thick on the river. Sections of it were canalised as well so it got a bit spooky in places. A nasty weir with lots of metal half way down it was walked around and the rest of the river was very pleasant. We spent ages looking for the get out and some railings which seemed to take for ever to appear...
Trisanna
The runs down the valley from Ischgl were Justin, Andy and Myself have been snowboarding and snow sculpting the last couple of years. Its seemed only fit to paddle this river. We stopped at the falls of See to have a look at the 4+ section on the river.. Much debate was had on the best line and what was going to be tricky. I think in the end most people decided that it was a bit much and that we should try the upper section of the river instead. We drove up to the Chain Saw cateract and got on here. As the cars were shuttled Nick, Owen, Andy and Myself got on to paddle this section of the river. I lead and Andy was at the back.. Quickly the river steepened as we turned the corner to enter the 4+ section. Jonathan,Rachel and Kelvin were on the bank watching us go down. I was checking the line out as I went down and was sat in an eddy planningmy next move. Nick came down to get in to my eddy so I moved off in to the main river flow. All of a sudden I found myself purched on top of a drop pinned up against a falled tree. Andy past by me followed by Owen and Nick (nick was apparently pinned as well but not so spectacularly) The tree had lots of small branches sticking out was going to make a mess of anything that came into contact.
Kelvin came over to check if I was ok... I wasn't.I could slowly feel the boat moving from under me and I was going to be dropped into the stopper and pushed against the tree. When the moment came I went over and pulled my deck and pushed out for all I was worth. Thankfully I missed the tree and swam down to pool were Nick and Andy were waiting for me. The insides of my boat had pretty much all come out and my paddles arrived 5 minutes later once they had been released from the stopper. By this point I was quite shaken but thankfully managed the rest of the river which dropped a grade and made life a lot easier.
Swims
Trisanna - Gavin
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