Date: 17/09/2016
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm Location: Reefton, Westcoast Rivers: Inangahua River Level: Meduim- low Weather: Clear, warm. People: Ryan O'conner, Reuben Sage, Manu, Gabe. Grade: 4+ Comments: Really excited to get on this river. Been wanting to paddle it for a while and it was good to go, although it could have used more water. No major incidents, a couple of rock scrapes by Gabe and myself but no injuries. (Thankful for elbow pads) Drop was good, nice clean 7m. Rest of the run was a little low but we got down. Really want to run it again with more water.
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Date: 16/09/2016
Time: 1:30pm - 4:00pm Location: Greymouth, Westcoast. Rivers/Sections: Ten Mile Ceek, Cole Creek Falls Level: Flooded, high. Weather: Heavy Rain all morning. People: Ryan O'Connor. Grade: 4+ Comments: Heavy rainfall for most of the day so we decided we'd get in some paddling after course. Decided to check out ten mile creek which is only a few kms out of Greymouth. Decided it was good to go. Scouted for a while, picked out our lines. Got on the river, paddled down the rapid. First few parts of the section were good. We hit the lines we wanted to and were paddling to a good level. Pretty scary holes but managed to avoid them. Missed half the section on my gopro. Finally we got to the last part of the section, I was on line during the entry but an unexpected flow pushed me further left then I wanted and I was pushed under a strainer. Luckily I went fully under this and managed to roll up. Ryan was pushed into the same strainer and lost his paddle but he managed to hand roll up and get through the rest of the rapid. We had to go back up to the rapid to look for Ryan's paddle which was still stuck in the strainer. We managed to get it out with 2 slings. Lessons I take from this are -Scout rapids more thoroughly -Carry a saw. We also paddled coal creek falls, which was pretty cool. About 5 metres high, good boof, clean line. Enjoyed myself. |
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