End of Summer on the Tummel

It feels as if summer has gone. The equinox is today and the weather has turned grey and damp. Yesterday, however, was lovely, and Calum and I spent it on the Tummel. Rafters were out in force, but we managed to avoid them and their large audience for most of the day.
Calum has a great liking for jumping off things, and found the Coronation Bridge hard to resist. We had to probe about underneath in order to find a suitably deep bit. The Tummel is very shallow, and he managed to find a rock some way down.







He sank again on the S-bends, but this time in his boat.



The Linn was so good we had to run it twice.

The Tummel

Calum and I have had a couple of good days on the Tummel recently. The first was in very wet weather. We put in at the S bends and had a short blast down to Loch Faskally. Despite the weather the level was low (it's dam fed), but the loch had turned into a raging river, thanks to a big brown flood pouring down the Garry. There was a sharp eddy line across the bay where the Tummel enters the loch- clear water on one side, debris and mud on the other!

 

 

 

Last Thursday we had a wintry tour down the upper (or uppper upper) river to Tummel Bridge. There are some nice rapids, including a reasonably meaty grade 4 drop, but an awful of lot of bumping and scraping in between. Calum managed to impress the tourists by going under the bridge right way up and appearing downside upside down. Funny how a roll looks better than doing things upright.