Feel Good factor

The feel good factor. For the first time in my life I am truely happy with where my boating is taking me, I am now running rivers which i could of only ever dreamed of and several of my early paddlign goalshave already been accomplished. For example paddling Swallow Falls and the mighty Ogwen.
Yesterday I paddled the Ogwen. It was pretty high at his point. One of the people I was paddling wit said it was at the perfect level- It was HUGE!!!! I never scraped a rock once and there was some pretty beefy pour overs!
After ot first run we did it again and by this point the river had dropped off by atleast a foot. We were very lucky.
A big thankyou to everyone who was willing to take me paddling and more importantly, help have me have lots of FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN :D

A Happy Turn

Well, it has been a crazy week for me, on Sunday I paddled the Llugwy again but different parts.

First we paddled Pont Cuffin mainlining it as it was only just low enough to run it with te ease of getting out of it.

After that, we paddled down to the mighty Swallow Falls where I paddled all 3 drops but portaging the first bit of the last drop but continuing to do the last slide. After that where we paddled down to the mincer.

After close inspection of the first rapid I decided to run it.
The safety was set up, the atmosphere was tense and I was ready to go. As the lead in was a bit rocky, I managed to mess some of my line up. Non the less, I carried on to the 'mincer'. All was going well untill by back caught the undercut rock and I went into a slot where I unfortunately got pinned. Luckily MY face formed an air pocket where I could breathe and help with the rescue. Kev and John pulled me out of the water within seconds. A big thankyou goes to anyone who helped out with the rescue.