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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.
Monday, November 27, 2006Wales - advance trip Nov06
Friday - those that arrived early in wales decided that the Aberglaslyn gorge would be a suitable warm up paddle. very short & good grade IV paddling with quite a bit more water in the river than last year. It should have been a short trip but, 10 minutes of paddling was followed by around 1.5 hours of attempting to rescue James Gray's pinned boat. Day light ended, so we left the boat in the gorge, and finished the last half km either walking out or paddling in the dark. Mobile phone reception was then sought to arrange for a spare boat to be brought up from leeds so james could paddle for the rest of the weekend.
Saturday - a pre-breakfast group went back to the aberglaslyn gorge to try again and rescue the boat. Fortunately for james the rising river had forced the boat free from its pin and made the salavage of it very easy.
The rest of the day the group split into 2.
One group ran the upper conwy, llugwy & aberglaslyn gorge.
The other half of the group wanted to find some new rivers so headed towards dolgellau to paddle the Eden (1st 2km was paddling through trees and portaging wire fences, rest of the river was fairly continuous technical grade III/IV rapids) & Lower Mawddach (including the public toilet falls!). There were a couple of swims, and Gill re-ignited an old shoulder injury so walked out of the last 2km.
Sunday - everyone went to the Ogwen. Half the group did the lower ogwen, which is mainly pool drop in nature. The rest did the upper, middle & lower ogwen, with just 4 of us running the gun barrell section. The biggest swim of the weekend occurred with simultaneous swims of steve, mark & dave (1st swim from his burn!), so i had 3 boats to rescue in the middle of a grade IV gorge!
Add to that the usual LCC post river pastimes of drinking and poker.
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