Chasing water yet again – what’s with this winter?! So, in the hope of getting some form of paddle I headed to the Blackwater with Matt and Caz. Cold was the word of the day, oh, along with scrape! We scraped down the river and ran most of the drops, but it didn’t really feel like a [...]
Well, today I had a mixed paddle on the Upper and Lower Blackwater. Mixed because it started really well, with a lovely boof off the top fall, but ended with bit of green room action under the old Wade bridge and a second swim on the lower section. The river was reasonably low and with [...]
Had a lovely, yet chilly, paddle down An t-Alltan Dubh (The Black Water), by Garve today with Kenny… Rain yesterday brought levels up just enough to enable the entire section to be run, with only a few knuckle scrapes en route! I ran the fall below the bridge a couple of times, while Kenny, getting a [...]
