The River Clywedog

[Tim K]

Ive noticed on the Environment Agency River Levels website that the River Clywedog is releasing with a level of 0.35m at Bryntail. Is the river high enough to run at this level?

[paddletastic2]

http://www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=47932

[Poke]

http://www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=47932

That doesn't really help, but if you find it does go at 0.35m can you post back here (note it has just dropped to 0.22m).

We’ve currently got a low calibration of 0.45m on rainchasers, though now with the new “scrape” calibration option we could alter this.

[The Walnut Cracker]

Paddled this a few weeks ago with the gauge at .47.
General consensus of our group was that we would not do it again at that level (too boney), it needed another couple of inches ideally, perhaps .50 on the gauge as a minimum.
I will post a picture of the top rapid if I can work out how.
Phil

[paddletastic2]

http://www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=47932

That doesn't really help, but if you find it does go at 0.35m can you post back here (note it has just dropped to 0.22m).

We’ve currently got a low calibration of 0.45m on rainchasers, though now with the new “scrape” calibration option we could alter this.

I think the point is that Jim has paddled it at .53 which is a standard release - I think he paddled it at that level and may be able to advise?

[Jim Pullen]

I think the point is that Jim has paddled it at .53 which is a standard release - I think he paddled it at that level and may be able to advise?

Nope, I was just taking a punt after reading it could be paddled on a normal release and that seemed to be 0.53m, looking at the gauge patterns near the time of that post. Sounds like it releases lower than this and isn't paddleable, so coupled with Phil's post seems to be a good educated guess for a low level. Not sure why rainchasers ended up being 0.45m, unless anyone had more info on this?

[The Walnut Cracker]

Top Rapid at a level of .47

and the drop

[leerogers]

Hi, I ran it at 0.34 last year and it goes - just! You'd probably want more water to have a decent run! Cheers, Lee

[shanclan]

We ran it a few months ago, not sure of the gauge level. There was a small tree fallen across that opening rapid, so if you do run it take a saw and gear to set up a pull. For us on that day, the answer to "where do you keep your saw?" was "in the car at the get out". Lesson learnt.