Every evening upon return to our less than fantastic campsite it seems to rain. The rain is so in tune with our presence that engineer Chase has even dug drainage channels to stop the ground saturating too much in high priority areas, such as around the tent and tarp. Last night it rained hard…for a long time…with thunder…and lightning.
Hoping that the rain had brought the Jordalselva up we left feeling optimistic and finally we got what we were after…the river with enough water in it. The top section was a little bump and scrape in places but the slides and 4m fall made up for that. Then we arrived at the unprecedented highlight of the run that we’d all been looking forward to – the clean, 10m waterfall! Chase went first opting for the pencil approach. It wasn’t pretty but it worked out fine. Eddie was next, also pencilling it but unlike Chase got rather unlucky when at some point deep beneath the waters surface he hit a rock with some speed. The nose of his boat had been refigured in a very unsightly way, probably making it easier to boof if it wasn’t for the ginormous splits. Guy’s line was good and finally Matt flew off landing nicely having learnt from the mistakes of the others.
Guy on the 4m drop
Chase on the 10m waterafall
Eddie about to go deeeeep
Guy going over the lip
