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| Tyne Tour |
| Written by Jack Simpson | |||
| Sunday, 09 November 2008 22:08 | |||
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The Tyne tour took place this weekend. So off we trotted up to Hexham to find the North Tyne. Lots of tales of doom surround this section in particular the Wardens Gorge! Ned and I were in big boats so had a fair chance of survival, but Loungy on the other hand brought his playboat - his chances of survival according to the tales we had heard were slim to non. We hopped on the river soon to discover that big boats were the right choice as comfort on the big flatts was much appreciated. The river bimbles its way down flowing steadily with the odd interesting weir and rapid to keep you moving. The scenery was great, the leaves a grand colour.
As we headed down conversation driffted around paddle sport, various boat designs, the big S and our impending doom down stream. We rounded the corner to see the river disappear and mist rising from the horizon alond with yells of terror.
Nah nothing that exciting! The river does however descend rapidly for 200m ish with some big sweet waves and holes nice long boats helped bur Loungy got some good rides too. At the bottom was a river wide green wave lovely surfing all round. The eddy was of course packed with folk, all etiquet had gone out of the window and a bit busy for my liking but I managed to be polite wait a bit and get some good rides. The worst that could happen in the gorge (more of slight tightening of the river!) is fall in at the top and swim all the way down but everyone was and getting out fine no big drama, safe enough. The rest of the river down to Hexham was calm but moving all the way. A very pleasent day out. Cheers.
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Still at least it had a forwards movement unlike andy's boat