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The weekend begins.

With a free weekend and MetCheck suggesting that Wales might be in line for a spot of rain it seamed only fair to make the drive north and see what was running.
Not long after crossing the border into Wales it was pretty obvious, pretty quickly that most were running in Wales.



In fact most of them were running straight out of there banks and all over the fields, roads and really anywhere they fancied! Luckily however unlike the large majority of our paddling trips this time we had local know how to point us in the right direction in the shape of Mr. Chris Evan, Andy Butler and local celebrity Mr. Euro Bob, I do feel a bit embarrassed, 2 day on the river and 1 night in Bobs house and I still have no idea what Bobs sir name is? He is a top chap tho!

So anyway, after a bit of a late start we arrived in the bar at PYB just as every one else did at exactly the same time! It was like we planned it. After a quick hello/good bye we were off, down here up there and across there later we arrived a river, didn’t look much to me but the “locals” were all very excited so I guessed things were looking good.





The river it turns out was the Colwyn, and it was at a good level. Many many trees seamed be in the river and we could only really gain access to said rive via a front garden, but by hec as soon as you were on you were off, and it just don’t really stop. Good rapids lead into some bigger drops then more rapids, drops, so on….top River well worth the effort if you find it running. The Colwyn eventually empties into the Glaslyn, this is a bigger river and a bit flatter so you get a chance to have a bit of a breather and a chin wag to your mate’s before you turn up at the Aberglalyn Gorge.







This gorge really is only about a few hundred meters long, but wow they really managed to pack a fair bit in there. I think we were pretty lucky with the water level. It’s a great continues run with the crux’s in the middle, a drop called the breaker. There’s a fairly fun but stout lead into this drop with a couple of good holes to punch before you rock over this drop, good bit of volume a great day on the river.


(with the light fading the POWER FIST came out!)

After a quick bite to eat in a local pub we then set off to Euro Bob’s house, The rain was now really falling at this point and the river were pretty sporty, the roads were also pretty sporty and after a quite interesting drive across an ever increasingly drowning Wales we made it to Bob house, A truly relaxing retreat, Jen made scones. Cream or Jam first? How do you take your cream tea??? The enormous fire was burning it was lovely. To finish off a great day Bob recommended a film Bubba Ho-Tep it was called, perfectly random it was, top day. Check it here



Are leave it there for now and regale you with stories from day 2 tomorrow, massive waterfalls and more high jinks all to come.

L8r all.

posted by Pete @ 7:40 AM