On Wednesday (19/10/2011) Jack, Jamie, Bryn and I headed out to Linton Falls on the River Wharfe for a bit of park and play fun.

This was our second Wednesday trip as part of our Wonderful Wednesdays format :)

The falls weren't particularly high, nor particularly low, none the less a lot of fun was had by all.

Over the course of the afternoon I styled both the left boof line, and the right line (first run paddling backwards). Bryn was kind enough to show us how not to run the boof line :)

I got to try out my new Palm gradient boots - they are really nice, and make clambering around on rocks significantly less hassle.

Take a look at some of the footage below..

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We won't talk about the social afterwards...

On Sunday a group of us headed up to the lakes with the university club. The intention was to run the Leven (which i'd never run before), but sadly the river dropped massively overnight.

In the end we decided to run the Kent twice - the first time as a refresher for the intermediate paddlers, the second run for us to get some practice in leading.

It was a great day out - there were no swims, and lots of styled lines. Turns out that force falls is quite a powerful bit of water.

We tried to send Jamie down force falls unawares (club policy), but he was too observant, and spotted it a mile off.

The rapid before L-shaped weir has now been named/renamed to 'The tonguemaster' because of the clean and obvious tongue running straight down it :)

It was also noted that Devils Bridge burgers are quite sickly, and not particularly nice..