Wednesday 12 March 2014

High Water on the Mawddach, North Wales

With another wet weekend forecast I drove up to North Wales. Despite the torrential rain on the drive up levels were pretty low on Saturday. We got a few runs of the Tryweryn in and crossed our fingers for better levels on Sunday.

River levels were still low on Sunday morning but thankfully it was raining and things were rising fast. By the time we got to the Fairy Glen the Conwy was massive. We drove to the Mawddach instead and had a wonderful day with plenty of water. It was the first time I paddled it with only 1 portage (Rhaeadr Mawddach). An easy line over the rocks on the right opened up on the second main drop but was still exciting and I found It hard to put out of my mind the evil rock formations now covered in a torrent of water.