2024 LCC Alpine Paddling Holiday
Day 11 Tuesday morning 30th July: Lower Guil to St Clement`s by Clara Clews
The Lower Guil was still running at a good level, so we headed off to Clara`s favourite river. We carried down to the river under the footbridge and set off as one group. The clear water produces some excellent waves and is set within a beautiful valley below the Mont-Dauphin fort on the cliffs above.
Before long we joined the main river and sped past the cliff that looked like a wave. It is white and made from limestone.
Once at the slalom course, we performed a few practice rolls in the eddy above and then ran down through the play waves. Richard stayed to surf a while before paddling down to join us. This is probably the friendliest piece of grade 3 water in the area and many paddlers come here to train, play and test themselves before venturing out to try more committing rivers.
We fetched the cars and loaded up in the car park at the rafting centre as we were heading up for two more rivers on the upper sections of the rivers in the afternoon.