For what must have been the second time ever we paddled TWO RIVERS in one day.

We met at the container for a nice early start at 8am and as we have discovered the fewer the people loading the van the less time it takes surprisingly since it was 
down to me Sam and Lauren we were soon under way, quick stop off to grab leif and Ben. We arrived at the first river at a record breaking 1030am after a quick glance 
at the river we were less than raring to go as the Lune was running quite low at the get in (0.36 on the Ea gauge at Killington bridge) but as we soon found out the 
trip is well worth making in low levels!

After a little bit of bumping and scraping our way down we stopped to let Ben catch up with some cold water rolling practice. First few drops were a little disappointingowing to lack of water however when we entered the Gorge sections we were pleasantly surprised with the rapids since our last trip they had changed some what from a  fortnight ago becoming tighter and in some cases more technical. One of the later rapids that is very shortly followed by a narrow chute was a fairly interesting feature which was ran more than once on Sam’s first time round he experienced the tow back of the small stopper at the bottom of the drop which to our amusement forcedhis boat under the water and then quickly popped him back out in a spin. On bens second run of the drop he became pinned sideways on the small chute thankfully Leif easily grabbed his boat and span him round.

The next notable section referred to as the strid warranted inspection in these low conditions, so we got out of our boats headed up onto the large rocky top of the 
gorge and discovered after the first blind left there was a huge rock in the middle of the section virtually impassable, we walked to the end of the rapid where we 
stood on the edge of the high rock looking down into the deep pool at the end of the Strid, when faced with the challenge from Ben to jump in I did shortly 
followed by  Lauren, Sam and Ben, Leif  took a bit more encouragement. After a lot more jumps and some photos including Ben’s epic starfish(see below) we were on our 
way again.

Since out last trip here some more interesting features had developed a number of again small fun little rapids, one of the later ones had a chute that you could nearly  fit a boat through sideways we know that because Ben this is where Ben got pinned for the second time. This time he was well and truly stuck and this time in muchnfaster flowing water making it much tricky to get him free, both me and Leif were  trying to get him free we had no luck. Eventually with some help from Sam 
and Lauren we stabilised his boat and lifted Ben out, The boat then took some time o wrangle free. A short way down river we reached the get out and loaded up the van 
Ben and Lauren in with the boats.

We reached the get in for the Kent just a few miles from the Lune with help from Bens Phone Not! After having a quick look at the river we decided that we should get 
in at the fall just above Sedgewick bridge and just run the last section, Leif and Lauren dint paddle but acted as our camera crew on this one. The drop was very nice 
in low water it was more technical than before and required split second timing to get the line through it right. On the previous paddle it was just a drop with one 
big wave. The three of us paddled down it then me and Ben decided we wanted to run it again, after which we carried on down to the L shape Weir which had shrunk 
considerably can could be paddled as previous extreme left instead we went river right in between the rock wall and the sticky corner of the drop both of which 
should be avoided.

we paddled down and got out to inspect Force Falls. As expected the feature was much changed (see comparison of inspection photos). Leif and Lauren had set up on the 
adjacent bank with the cameras and managed to get some great shots. After watching ben run it me and Sam shortly followed at the bottom me and Ben decided we should run  it again. ON our second runs we discovered that we could run the feature much farther left and instead of avoiding the big rock land on it and be sent gliding right over it which turned out to be great fun and as a result I ran the drop 5 times and Ben 6.

We paddled to the get out hauled up the boats when getting changed i realised having paddled in the shorts i had came in I dint bring any trousers so had no choice 
but to where my long johns around Kendal where we went for fish and chips I received some very strange looks from the locals.

A great days paddling with some awesome snaps to accompany it enjoy! (Photos to be uploaded tonight)