With rain falling all day three of us headed over to the lower Clough. It was high but we had all done it at a similar level before. We didn’t make it to far tho, the 2nd ledge drop caused 2 swims and a lost paddle, I had made the eddy above it and couldn’t see what had happened but saw the messy hole and walked around. Unfortunately due to miss-communication I walked by them and got on (as I couldn’t see them and thought one was boat chasing). By the time I had got to the entrance to the gorge I got out and waited. Half an hour later and a few relieved faces all round we were reunited and discussed how that epic had happened. It was our own fault as we didn’t scout, and my fault for not fully checking the bottom of the drop to see if they were there. Lessons learnt.
Sam’s view of the river:
My view:
lakesboaters.wordpress.com 