Simon and Mark were coming up to play, but late on Saturday Simon had to pull out. No worries, Mark was still "on" and a trip into Eskdale was in order. It rained on Saturday night; Metcheck suggested ~25mm between midnight and 9 am; it was still sheeting down as we started the kilometer or so walk up to the first main falls at 11:45...
Surprisingly the level was in-between, too little to clear the pinny rocks, too high to chance sliding between them and the hole under the first proper fall. While avoidable, it would have taken a difficult launch, paddling the drop individually and with lots of safety faff, then out of the boats to portage the sharp rock-littered cheese grater sections below. Mark had decided early to walk (making his point by dropping his boat 400m earlier).. a no brainer really, so the youth and I sealed in just below the grater and headed back to where Mark had dropped his boat. Mark saw us coming and joined us on the river and we continued down through the gorge and Doctors Bridge sections to the usual take-out by the King George IV pub; a good run, making up for the lack of water higher up and a first for Mark.
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