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[banzer]

One of my favourite holes is this one halfway down the Clough in Cumbria. It's one of those ones that typewriters you towards the middle whichever side you take it. The smartest line is probably dead straight, as fast as you can! Here is Stu 'Callwild' in the thick of things a couple of weeks back:


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Pics please of your favourite holes and why! :-)

[Michael Hatton]

Normally top drop on the ecstacy slabs Allt a' Chaorainn, but for variation having a play in the second one down for a change!
http://vimeo.com/37261013 (sorry no photo)

[Mark R]

One of my favourite holes is this one halfway down the Clough in Cumbria.

I seem to remember that this hole has some awkward lowslung branches hindering the approach?


A couple of my own...

[DaveBland]

The Kent with some rain and a Dancer in it...

[cripper]

not my hole (thank god!) but just saw this pop up on facebook. new world freestyle setting?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/418996_10150592769808525_38857998524_9181506_1770928441_n.jpg

[Simon]

My favourite of all - The FinsterMonster - halfway down the Finstermuntz Gorge on the Inn at the Swiss Austrian Border.

Simon

[DaveBland]

Is that the Karnali? If so I remember looking at that beast in 96 and staring down the barrel but bottling last min.
Balls of... to dive in.

[box2k2]

Dave's Hole, River Nevis

[Neptune]

Who's the lucky paddler in Dave's Hole Martin?

Peter

[box2k2]

Maybe I should have said Ben & Nat's hole :)

[Croft]

Also on the Karnali - the hole/pourover at Jailhouse is one to avoid:



fortunately that is pretty easy with the current run-in.

[andrew butler 101]

Is this what you were after?

[TheKrikkitWars]

This morning's breakfast on keyboard!

[MattC]

How about these... One to the left of the paddler, one to the right and a third monster at the bottom.

[Tim Maud]

Also on the Karnali - the hole/pourover at Jailhouse is one to avoid:



fortunately that is pretty easy with the current run-in.

James Venimore has a great shot of a raft launching off the Jailhouse "rock" It was a fun paddle to gather nine people over the next 2km of rapids. Constantly counting to make sure there was no one we'd left! Fun times.

[Mark R]

Also on the Karnali - the hole/pourover at Jailhouse is one to avoid:



fortunately that is pretty easy with the current run-in.

My wife, at the precise moment she glimpsed the pourover...



...and Jim Green running it...

[Mark R]

not my hole (thank god!) but just saw this pop up on facebook. new world freestyle setting?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/418996_10150592769808525_38857998524_9181506_1770928441_n.jpg

Is there a paddler in that photo??? If so, I can't spot him/ her...

[banzer]

That Congo monster is just unthinkable.

Mark, the run in on the Clough has the odd branch but nothing too bad.

Some nice holes coming in!

[callwild]

One of my favourite holes is this one halfway down the Clough in Cumbria. It's one of those ones that typewriters you towards the middle whichever side you take it. The smartest line is probably dead straight, as fast as you can! Here is Stu 'Callwild' in the thick of things a couple of weeks back:


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Pics please of your favourite holes and why! :-)

Good photo Banzer, but its Rob in there , my blades are red, and you can still see me on the far bank. Very polite not to mention that I swam :).
All this gorge on the Clough is tree free, Mark may be thinking of the sticky hole on The Rawthey at the put in which is garded by a very low branch. Not too bad in the winter but with leaves on it hides the hole.

[andrew butler 101]

I've been informed my last hole was "not appropriate" so heres another,



Widowmaker, the final run.

Andy

[banzer]

Good photo Banzer, but its Rob in there , my blades are red, and you can still see me on the far bank.

Ah so it is! (Still not quite used to the GoPro's ability to show the rapid, the lead-in, the one before, and the take-out and put-in, all in one shot......)

[Mark R]

All this gorge on the Clough is tree free, Mark may be thinking of the sticky hole on The Rawthey at the put in which is garded by a very low branch. Not too bad in the winter but with leaves on it hides the hole.

Definitely thinking of the Clough, maybe things have changed a bit since I last did it, or maybe my memory is distorted. I do recall Chris Wheeler throwing a few involuntary ends in the hole, but getting away with it.

I certainly remember the Rawthey branch/ bush; I've actually only done the Rawthey once, on this occasion (I think it was very high) we had to boof the hole and then break out directly upstream of the branch, which was blocking the whole river, and portage.

[Jim Pullen]

All this gorge on the Clough is tree free, Mark may be thinking of the sticky hole on The Rawthey at the put in which is garded by a very low branch. Not too bad in the winter but with leaves on it hides the hole.

Definitely thinking of the Clough, maybe things have changed a bit since I last did it, or maybe my memory is distorted. I do recall Chris Wheeler throwing a few involuntary ends in the hole, but getting away with it.

I think your memory is correct Mark. There was a big over-hanging branch on river right of that hole the first few times I ran the Clough about four or five years ago. It's been thankfully clear for the last few years.

[Rory W]

That hole on the Clough definitely had a branch on the lead in to dodge relatively recently (maybe 3 years ago?). Good high water memories of ducking the tree, just making the boof and turning round to see the 3 people following me drop in one after the other and all swim together.

Not as impressive as some on here but my favourite hole is on Middle Force/Horseshoe/the top drop of Low Force on the Tees. Local run, all sorts of lines at all sorts of levels, but always deceptively sticky. Good place to practice a bit of survival boating at med-high levels. It is possible to paddle out at most normal levels. Seen lots of good paddlers embarrased here! And Low Force just after to make it all more interesting.

[feelingjustfine]

Remember this once Banzer? "There is a line down the right".....eeerrrmmmm...


And of course that lovely warm day "playboating"..


Oh the fun we have had together over the years :-)

[DaveBland]

Sorry it's so crappy...

Shooting the weir on the Avon near Glasgow in flood.


Only seen it the once. What's it like at lower levels?

[banzer]

At a guess Dave, I'd say shopping trolleys might feature...

Chris that 'playrun' (Lagen?? the one near Voss) still brings me out in cold sweats....

[DaveBland]

At a guess Dave, I'd say shopping trolleys might feature...

Quite possibly – on the way down the trib to get on the main river, it was trashed car dodging all the way.

So there's no guide to the Avon on this site... isn't it paddled? I seem to remember it being okay. It must have been in a guide to start with. So long ago I can't remember though.

[Dave Manby]

TCR or as it is know in long hand as Total Control Rafting. (They came out upright!)

[feelingjustfine]

Chris that 'playrun' (Lagen?? the one near Voss) still brings me out in cold sweats....

Ha, yeah was a fun day-only time I have ever seen Andy concerned looking on a river! Lagen though...I thought it was the raundelselvi?