I took a few photos whilst away mainly of the Etive and the Morriston. Click on the picture below to see the gallery.

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On friday we headed north again and ran the Meig. None of us had run this before but the guide book promised it would run in low water. What we found was a short two km pool drop river in an extremely beautiful gorge. And it ran even with just the compensation release from the […]

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Still no water but we lucked out on both days and found the Morriston open 🙂 Lucille and Vicki managed to swim on the lower section on wednesday and got off halfway through on the Thursday due to a dicky tummy. Andy managed to do an entire rapid upside down and Ben had an epic time trying to […]

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Arghhh no water 😦 Managed a scrape down the Etive (Vicki swam on the letterbox) then hiked up half a mountain to run about 400m of bedrock slides down the valley. There’s talk of walking tomorrow… please let it rain.

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Unfortunately the predicted rain hasn’t appeared, at least as far as we can tell. This lead us to the old low water favorite, the Findhorn. Despite the low levels we managed to float down the the river without any problems. Vicki and Lucille managed to take swim on Randolf Leap and Seth tried to break […]

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Not much water around (hopefully it’ll rain tonight) but we managed to get in the Etive and the Allt a’ Chaoruinn. Swim awards go to Dave S and Fred! Last nights chille was fabulous although it did mean we had to have the car windows open quite a lot. Those of you who know Dave […]

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Made it to Roy Bridge in one piece only to discover Vicki’s made us a chile, bless.

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Past Glasgow and three people in the car are already in the iPod hall of shame. ‘Bob the builder’ ‘Lets get ready to rumble’ PJ & Duncon ‘Everything I do I do it for you’ Bryan Adams Then Dave H insisted that we all sung along to Wet Wet Wet’s ‘Love is all around’ when […]

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Just passing Manchester and the shocking news of the day is that Dave S is ahead of us! And the big question of the day is; will we make good enough time to get a cheeky run of the Etive in?

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