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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, April 10, 2007Where was the water?
It wasn't in the rivers near Fort William for the 24 people on the club's annual trip to the rivers around Fort William. After the long drive on thursday, and rumours that the Garry was releasing from the dam on friday, it made an obvious choice, and we were rewarded with a fun grade 3 river that in its short length has many more features than the washburn, and saw us trying to playboat in our creek boats. Paul clements took the first swim of the trip.
Saturday we went to look at an extremely low Etive. the main drops all looked ok, but in between the river looked very scrapey...people were walking in places. After a park n play session on triple steps we headed down the river, steve swam on crack of doom. Right angle falls was the main event - 6m water fall (almost double the hight of low force on the tees). Hopefully there'll be plenty of photos on the gallery sometime soon, as for many it was their first big waterfall. For some they prefered jumping/diving in off the cliff face rather than repeating the drop in their boats!
Sunday was the Spean gorge, again in extremely low water. Once we'd scraped to the gorge the gorge itself was fine, though less boily than normal. Martin had many swims, and phil also.
The afternoon was the Arkaig for 5 of us, where Gill ended the trip by breaking her paddles by dropping her boat on them!, and fort william leisure pool for the rest.
Monday saw the group split in 2, with half prefering an earlier drive home, and the rest repeating the Etive (a swim for Mark this time).
We'll be back there again next year... hopefully with some rain!
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