[Tim]

On a serious note, our river trips need more paddlers carrying split paddles, first aid kits and saws, Everyone should have a throw line, whistle and knife. Your gonna need a bigger boat!

[Tim]

I don’t want to talk about it. I want to be alone. Well, ok then, it was like this. We were paddling a section described in the guide as flat. On a rapid I would class as a grade 1.5 I managed to get pinned on a branch running horizontal to the water at about chest height. I was able to lean onto it, keeping the boat upstream and tried in vein to shuffle along it. Over I went and frantically pulled my deck. Mark then witnessed Olympic standard swimming as I chased my boat and paddle. Mark said sorry for not bringing a saw and we went to the pub. All good fun!

[Tim]

Nice one Zaf. We will start a database shortly. Today was always going to be difficult to predict. I even put a post on rivers guidebook asking for advice about snow melt. Rivers can rise very quickly with snowmelt and with high rainfall added to the equation predicting a safe river for a group of mixed abilities becomes even more difficult. Best to walk away today. However, there are a couple of grade 2 paddles that may have been running today and I will be doing shortly to check their suitability. One is the Glaslyn above the gorge and the other is the wnion below the gorge.

[Tim]

The footage has been really useful for me to look at. I worked really hard yesterday at leaning forward. I’ve been getting into a bad habit of leaning back in the kayak, but having looked at Geoff’s video it appears I’ve sorted the problem out. It’s also nice to see a video where I’m not having to roll! Happy Tim!

[Tim]

My first run of the gorge sticks in the mind. super stuff

[Tim]

Thanks for the report Richard. Is it time to bring out the poggies?

[Tim]

Ive put some footage on youtube. Check out ‘The gamlan and the mawddach’ I used youtube video editor which chose the music!

[Tim]

barryc2937 on youtube has footage. I think you may have already seen it Nigel

[Tim]

This river is great fun. Yes I will do it again. Fast and continous grade 2. I used google street view to identify suitable access and egress. Why have I never used this before? There is plenty of warning time to portage the weir drops. Look out for a modern peice of machinery floating in the river towards the end. It looks like a giant fan. No idea why its there, but was easily passed river right.

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