Swallow falls

[feelingjustfine]

I think one of the greatest UK descents left to be had would be the ENTIRE Conwy or Llugwy whitewater in one run or day!

Entire Spean in a day...

Entire Nith in a day in big water-sexy time!

[magictom]

Collins & Blain. It's interesting to note that the majority of hard stuff in that neck of the woods and further south has been run by those pair in open boats!

Are you sure Chris? I could have sworn that Swallow was run by Phil Blain and Dave luke in a tandem.

[Rob Jones]

Ray Rowe on the day it was filmed by S4C..

[chris s sladden]

Thanks for the memories and posting the pictures.
Ray Rowe and Phil Blain are worthy legends! Fred Wondre is also a remarkable character- who is going to be joining me in BC for some powder skiing in the New Year- he will probably burn my butt

The other fellow in the open boat on Swallow was a fellow from Leicester, but for the life of me I cannot think of his name.

I remember Ray commenting that he was getting too old for this lark- I now know what he meant.



All good things


Chris

[Randy Fandango]

The other fellow in the open boat on Swallow was a fellow from Leicester, but for the life of me I cannot think of his name.

I have a feeling it was Dave Crooks.
Giles

[Rob Jones]

The other fellow in the open boat on Swallow was a fellow from Leicester, but for the life of me I cannot think of his name.

I have a feeling it was Dave Crooks.
Giles

I also think it was Dave Crooks, he worked for Mobile Adventure at the time. I recall both Phil Blain and Dave Crooks taking open boats down the fairy glen, got some photos somewhere!.

Rob

[chris s sladden]

Dave Crooks I remember now. Cheers


Chris

[Rob Jones]

I also think it was Dave Crooks, he worked for Mobile Adventure at the time. I recall both Phil Blain and Dave Crooks taking open boats down the fairy glen, got some photos somewhere!.

Rob

If you can find them, id be very keen to see them Rob.

Found them, and scanned..
Not superb photos, taken with an old 35mm waterproof camera.

[Tom_Laws]

Some Swallow Falls footage can be found at http://www.tom-laws.com/Videos/Avril_0001.wmv




Chris on the second slide.



Me dropping into the second slide.

[cucc2stu]

Some photos from paddling all three drops on Saturday http://gallery.ouckc.co.uk/v/drnick/Dr+Nick/?g2_page=1. The tree is all gone (did someone remove it or did it wash out?). We testing plugging the syphon but there seemed to be enough water to make sure that if you were afloat you wouldn't head that way (but put a lot of safety there anyway!) The right of center boof then 'left of the right channel' boof line on the third drop is really quite fun.

[welshyaker]

Here's A short video of Swallow falls been done river right on the top drop and you can see the way we got down to it because of the trees above, the two drops/slides are just plain good fun. I havn't run the 3rd drop.
Have Fun

Mark

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hDuWoJeDMZc