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    Posted: 18 Nov 08 at 6:40pm
I was actually there in september as I went camping nearby with the Mrs. I'd heard stories about these kayakers and thought they must be pretty nuts! The mountain biking locally is pretty good too.





As you can see, there isn't much of a run off at the bottom!
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Originally posted by dave.blakesley

cant say i ever attempted anything like that though!! Won't it get a bit hairy
at the bottom? recirculating water etc..? especially iirc their travelling at
40mph when they hit the bottom!

 

Looks a bit like pitchpoling a cat on hitting the water. 

 

Good stuff; I wonder if they would let us ride our mountain bikes down it?

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I know this dam very well, and there is no way you'd get me going down it. Normally when the water is running you get a huge fountain coming off the bottom to aeriate the water in the river, and I wouldn't want to be down there when they switched it on. Tim the pictures you took are what it's normally like, I haven't seen it full for years, and I go up there at least once a year.

 

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Originally posted by Guest#260

Originally posted by Rupert

...all the better for being banned!

That should ensure a long line of people wanting to give it a go ...


Yep, Welsh water couldn't have advertized better if it had been at Alton Towers! When living in Aberystwyth, the Uni canoe club were very into doing rather extreme things. You'd go down to the harbour in a gale, with white water everywhere, waves breaking twice the height of the harbour walls, and then you'd see a canoist paddling back in, having been out for a play. Mad, quite mad...
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Originally posted by Scooby_simon

Originally posted by dave.blakesley

cant say i ever attempted anything like that though!! Won't it get a bit hairy
at the bottom? recirculating water etc..? especially iirc their travelling at
40mph when they hit the bottom!


 

 

Looks a bit like pitchpoling a cat on hitting the water. 

 

Good stuff; I wonder if they would let us ride our mountain bikes down it?



Shame on you Simon!  Surely you should be wanting to ski down it?
the same, but different...

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Surely they'd go faster in an albacore...

might be tricky getting under the lower bridge however.
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Originally posted by Rupert

Originally posted by Guest#260

Originally posted by Rupert

...all the better for being banned!

That should ensure a long line of people wanting to give it a go ...


Yep, Welsh water couldn't have advertized better if it had been at Alton Towers! When living in Aberystwyth, the Uni canoe club were very into doing rather extreme things. You'd go down to the harbour in a gale, with white water everywhere, waves breaking twice the height of the harbour walls, and then you'd see a canoist paddling back in, having been out for a play. Mad, quite mad...

Errr... it is Aberystwyth.  Stuck in the middle of Wales, about 2 hours from any major civilization will do that to do someone.  Surfing a canoe on the Trap is one thing.... a laser 2 is a whole different ball game.
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