What a truely amazing place. The rivers were unique, the scenery amazing and the boating was 'lush'!
The rivers me and my group got done were :
Roy-high water
Gloy-high water (perfect)
Pattack x2-medium and then again in high
Archaig-low-medium water
Upper Spean to Invalair falls-2 pipes (alpine!!)
Etive-medium high
I think my favourite has to be the Gloy, what an outstanding continuous grade 3/4 run. Out of my group I was the only one not to swim which was pretty lucky. All the other swims were due to lack of attention, new boats and chase boating.
After this I would strongly discourage anyone to 'chase boat' unless you are on a piece of water which you know in side out.
I ended up swimming once on Right Angle, River Etive. I basically got a small dunkin' in the 'right angle' part. I took a roll and manged to get out. But by the time I was out I was way too far right. I went down the fall O.K but I resurfaced upside down and the pretty weird boils pushed me against the wall leaving me unable to roll. I popped my deck and got pulled to the side of the fall with water trickling down my head. As i was stuck in the most awkward place, it took a good 20 minutes to get me out of there.
In my opinion I think it was agood thing as I am still pretty inexperienced and a swim like this has never happened to me. The bad thing was that I lost beloved h2o team blades :(
So I am still currently paddless but borrowing friends blades:)
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