As usual it hammered it down with rain early in the week whilst I was working so the levels were dropping fast by Thursday morning when we were gearing up to head to the Mellte. After picking up Matt Price and meeting up with the other boys in Monmouth we hit the road. On the way we were all given a heavy adrenaline rush by the roof rack flying off Sams car fully loaded with boats. Luckily it was early and the dual carriage way was quiet, so after untying the boats quickly and throwing them in the van we hit the road again!
We got geared up, piled in the van and hit the river. It was low but good enough to get down the falls. Everyone had a sweet line on the warm up 15 footer and we jumped out to take a look at the 30. The lip was super shallow and the second lip was even worse. On the left it is a double drop, 10 foot too 20. My line was almost sketchy, I caught my nose whilst landing on the shelf which turned me sideways on the lip, luckily I managed to put a stroke in the straighten up during the free fall and landed a pretty awesome boof! Everyone had a bumpy line but the best was Matt Prices in his C1 Nomad. I cartwheeled all the way down and was totally uninjured, epic! Sam landed on his side and unfortunately lost of head cam.
The rest of the river all went, the gorge was bony but all good with no incidents. At the 8 foot weir Sam landed sideways and beatered! After 10 minutes we finally got his boat out using a live bait. Sam was having a great day.... We got off the river in good spirits, good day, sketchy lines, awesome times!
Here's a short clip of some footage I got, enjoy!
https://vimeo.com/77810483
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