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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, February 06, 2007The Lune - 14th Jan 2007
We headed off to do the Hindburn, in the usual Leeds Canoe Club stile, which means we get close then decide not to waste any more time and go and do the Lune (again, third week on the trot)
Water levels were high, higher than two weeks ago. I didn't swim again, seems like I'm getting better.
Nice big Wave trains, rolly mark had a long swim, and a short swim.
Other than the experience of doing a river with a lot of water in it, it isn't a good river to do when there's too much rain. The eddy's disappear as do a lot of the features and the water gets very boily.
The Magnetic rock was about 6 inch under water, first time we did it was between 4 and 6 feet tall (from my aging memory)
The second constriction, was almost a wash through, the only trouble was the stopper at the bottom which spun the unwary over, me included. The river usually flows onward between three rocks, creating two shoots to hit, these had gone and a large hill of water (a pour over) had replaced it. This spooked me a little, as I had just rolled and was only a few feet from it. After the initial panicking face, it wasn't too hard to avoid and the smile returned.
The first constriction / gorge was just big and bouncy. No problem for a man of my capabilities, what was, was the tree at the side at the bottom of the gorge. Nice little eddy, I'll wait there, ferry glide across, in the eddy hold the branch, easy grab just hook my elbow over and sit a waaaaiiiiittt. I had let go of my paddle with my right arm whilst I hooked on, the boat was washed under the branch, my left hand and paddle down stream. Trapped, bad edge, bad paddle position, unable to pull my self up without letting go of my paddle. Panic face again, small girly scream almost kitten like (drowned out by the noise of the water, thanks water). What am I to do......I threw my paddle in the air, grabbed the branch with my left arm, hip flicked, pulled my self up straight, pushed away from the branch, caught the paddle and continued on, unnoticed by anyone. Another sign that I must be getting better.
I was going to apologize for the rushed blog, but its taken me three weeks to finish it.
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