Norway

When we finally arrived in Norway we went straight to Voss. The Levels were low and the Raundalselvi was the only real option. We ran the play run so are new recruits Nick Doran and Paul Browne could get warmed up. Then we went up the valley to have a look at "Nose breaker" we were happy with what we saw even if it had a bit of a hit at the bottom. We decided to have lunch and run the "Train station" section and come back after that to run it. As we headed to the vans we met Paul Byrne coming the other way in his gear, it appears that he got sick of looking at it and maned up, so I grabbed my camera and got changed, Nick did like wise and set up rescue. After carrying up our boats sure it would be bad manners not to!

Paul Brown

After getting off the "Train Station" section at dusk the previous evening we were happy to take it easy and have a play session at a friendly hole just outside Voss, which was great for cartwheeling, I think its called the "Flag Hole". We then trucked on to Sjoa.

Middle of the 30k tunnel on the road to Sjoa

We started in Sjoa with a run on the Lagen, Rosten section. Then we had a few runs on the Sjoa, Amot Gorge and the Ridderspranget sections.

Nick charging right

Grieg on the Ridderspranget

Paul trying out the new Cat 6578

The German camp site in Sjoa.

Scotland

Well I didn't think I would be posting photos of Scotland when I left Ireland. The plan was to go straight to Norway, but we missed the ferry(lets just say there was a passport involved and leave it at that!) and there was no space on the next one. So there we were in Newcastle it was raining and we had six days to play with only one thing to do get are asses in gear and get up to Fort William.
We drove as far as the Falls of Falloch and had a park and huck session there the following morning, the river was too low to run so we headed to the Etive.

Paul Byrne on the Falls of Falloch

Dilly Dally Nally

Peader McGuire

Peader on the Etive

Right Angle Falls

Levels were low but with a couple of hours rain the Nevis came up. We got a good run in and had some fun messing around on the last drop.

Camping on the Nevis

Boofalicous

Colin Irvine came up from Edinburgh for a paddle on the Etive and a run on the middle Orchy. We stayed in Colin's flat for the weekend making the most of the Fringe Festival by going to Andrew Maxwell. On the Saturday he brought us biking on his local trails in Glen tres which has some of the best trails I've ever ridden.

Colin on the Middle Orchy