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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.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007The Lune - 28th Jan 20007 pm (The Lakes part 4)
This was a Ninja run, just four of us. Its was at the lowest level I've ever seen it, still it was do able, and other groups were paddling it too.
The first time I ran this river, I was in Steve Henderson's group. Stop the blog. Every one stare into space whilst I reminis, wiggly lines appear as we travel back in time. We are at the top of the first drop, with mustaches and kipper ties (this isn't true, but I wanted the image to be a little dated), Steve eddied us out, and advised us to watch how he handled the first feature, thus seeing how easy it would be. He paddled off, eager novice kayakers watching for line. He hit a rock, hit the island, went under a tree, capsized, then rolled up and signaled for us all to follow. OK back to the future. We are at the drop, I've just finished repeating this story for any one on the trip that hadn't already heard it, my turn to do the drop.
I hit the stone, hit the island, went under a tree, capsized, then rolled up. But here's the twist and the mark of my improvement over the year. I did it backwards.
Magnetic rock, the only mistake I made was saying that it hadn't managed to get me the previous three trips down the lune. Lets just say that the scores no longer three to nil.
The Constriction, river right. We got out and had a look at this. There was just enough water to get the boat down, but not enough for paddles as well. So the whole drop was done by edging and hip flickery. It has to be said that my hip wiggling was on form, imagine if you will Elvis the slaloming polecat, he would have come second, that's how good I was.
The entire river was run at stealth speed on to off in less than one and a half hours.
Time for beans on toast.
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