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Descended today in low water conditions. A brilliant trip. Full report below:
Approach last night via Kayak from Blairannaich. Parked van at ///lamenting.drops.yacht
Kayak took roughly 30 minutes at a chilled pace. Waves increased towards the mission side of the Loch on the way there.
Landed kayaks where the canyon meets the loch, river left. Excellent flat and tucked away camping spot just uphill from the West Highland Way path with some ruins which we stored kayaks in during the day. ///cemented.grass.slate
To start the canyon approach walk across the bridge towards Imversnaid past the house and look for the path to your right just before the stream. This quickly joins the track.
Walk up the 4×4 track was steeep. 40 minutes on the track until leaving it at ///approvals.army.anchovies and making our way cross country to the get in on the trib at ///flannel.tortoises.chairs
First abseil is off some webbing river left into a chute. Hard to find webbing at first. We took the dry option off a tree river right.
Anchor was gone for abseil 2. Build a new one river right in a choked boulder on the canyon wall.
Short gorgewalk follows with some fairly chunky downclimbs that would need a rope in higher water.
Next drop was the biggie! Natural anchor off tree river right to start HANDLINE which follows right round the corner to a second tree for a really nice line (next to but out of the flow.)
More gorge walking followed with some trickier downclimbing.
Next abseil from river centre uses a large upstanding boulder. Retrieval appeared to be very difficult after the first person went so we switched to a different anchor river right, making use of a small choke point between boulders.
A gorge walk followed to the last abseil monobolt in good condition. Abseil tricky with a bit of full void at the start. Pool in good condition still and with inspection would be safe for a jump from the slippy shelf half way or from the grass ledge on the right (sketchy traverse to get to this).
The gorge walk at the end took us by surprise. Very long with some technical downclimbing, we were all gorge walked out by the end.
The canyon was probably a 6 out of 10 but making an adventure out of it with the kayak across and camp made is an 8 out of 10 epic canyon adventure.