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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.
Monday, July 25, 2005Big Water, Big Swims
So first the full day of paddling. First river of the day the Sanna, soon to become a favourite of the holiday. Grade 4 and down hill all the way.. The first corner was the nemesis of many on the holiday. not quiet blind but if you didn't inspect then you would either be pushed up against the roofed corners to pushed on to a rather nice under cut rock... I think a few paniced and ended up swimming. Steve rolled on the corner but eneded up taking a swim down the Sanna. The rest of the river was excellent. A nice little play wave, even for big boats! The get out for the Sanna is just at the campsite. Just climb up the steps and there were the tents. Excellent for the end of day Sanna Blast..
When we got back to the campsite Nick and Owen were waiting for us. We headed off to Imst to go and paddle the Imst Gorge on the river Inn. Once a grade 5 river due to its 250cumecs' of flow. Now a big and bouncy grade 3. Finding the river was the hardest bit and took about 2 hours as people got lost in tunnels, had rubbish maps etc. Eventually we found the Oxford lot under the fly over paddling down a ditch. Not the 250C that I was expecting..We all met up on the river and preceded to paddle down under the bridge. An emence roar could be heard and Kelvin was first over and seen to roll almost imediately. The river consisted of massive wave trains with some flat sections now and again. In amongst this some how Gill managed to swim. Jonathan went to her rescue and clawed the boat out to the side.
Shuttled the cars around and then got back to the campsite intime for another Sanna Blast. Everyone jumped in the cars and headed back up the road to the get in. Now everyone was getting more comfortable with this run. I went down first followed by the others. Steve was close behind but after the swim in the morning I think he was nervous about it all. His boat ended up washed up against the undercut rock. Kelvin divedin on a line to clip on to it and pull it free. It took 4 of us to pull it free. The boat still has a bite mark from its run in. The rest of the river was pretty hassel free. Bouncing through big stopper, grinding off rocks as we went. Got to the get out by the tents with the sun still shining and some cool beers ready to be drunk. Then off to the bar for more beer and a pizza as we hadn't eaten much during the day.. It was going to be a good paddling holiday.
Swims
Sanna - Steve Henderson x 2
Imst Gorge - Gill Arnet
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