Aire Waves: The Kent and The Lune 18th Feb. 2007

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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, February 19, 2007
The Kent and The Lune 18th Feb. 2007

This weekend brought about two trips, The Valentines paddle, which saw a group of couple heading into Wales to paddle some rivers, in the Kayaking equivalent of a Gondola (the topo duo). The second trip was a two river, extreme trip, only hardened paddlers need apply. (Bring your own biscuits, not a picnic, and no Hoers derv's.)

The Kent (am)
A great river, fantastic drops, a couple of early swimmers, but overall a happy ending for all bar one. She doesn't normally swim and was very annoyed with herself for this one, Gill (She never mention's her second name, so I've used my initiative to come up with one, so that you'll all know who I mean) Hall, Gill swam after the last drop (Force falls) on the Kent. One person who was very pleased with this was Richard Gatehouse, not because he's nasty, but because he didn't swim (on this drop on this occasion)

Basic stuff: Water levels were Good, on the water snack was the milk chocolate Rocky bar.

Short interlude
The observation test - Was that some members of our group on the other side of the motor way, heading at high speed, in the opposite direction. No it wasn't, this was a delusion, and we hadn't forgotten to pick up Bob's van from the lay-by at the top of the Kent before setting off to the Lune.
(Three things to remember here, when hinting to the driver about not forgetting a vehicle, don't just say "Don't forget the car", especially if your driver is good natured enough to not say aloud "Der, we are in the car". The second thing not to do is, do not then distract the driver by eating all his chocolate Hobb Nobbs, at a critical point on the round-a-bout)

The Lune (pm)
We arrived a little late, few extra miles under our belts. The Lune was at a low level, which meant a lot of the rock shuffling.

The Magnetic rock proved a little tricky for one person in particular, Kelvin, swam and no more was said. For my self, a clean run, missing the rock and taking the score up to 4 to 1 to me. Kelvin probably claims a score of 100 to 1, but it's the one that happened on this trip that matters.

The constriction on the Lune, we did this again with very little water in it, by wiggling our hips. A few notable walk arounds, I won’t mention them here, you know who you are. I yet again impressed all with my snake like hip wiggling abilities, drawing such compliments as "you spawny git" and "lucky B'stard". This became the preamble to a long debate from the likes of the Russian Paul and Dangerous Dave Dakin. They were no match for my expert debating techniques in which I pointed out that I had done this twice now and still not taken the easy line that they had both done, they finally conceded that it must be the abilities of the new boat, rather than my own Kayaking capabilities.

Water levels - scrapie, very, very scrapie
On the water snack was Mint Kit Kats

# posted by MT @ Monday, February 19, 2007

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