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Canolfan Tryweryn News

FREE PADDLING

The Welsh Canoeing Association announces that paddling is free at the National Whitewater Centre... read more here

Parental Consent

Parental consent is now required for all customers who are under the age of 18 and are participating in Canolfan Tryweryn activities... click here for more

CT Photo Competition

We have finally found 6 winners for the 2006/7 CT Photo competition!
Thank you to everyone that entered and congratulations to the winners!

The winning photos are(in alphabetical order):

Photographer: Graham Cranwell

Description: International Start, CT

Photographer: David Harvey

Description: Early morning on the Riviére Dumoine, Quebec

Photographer: Steve Hughes

Description: Paul,one of our party,had gone all the way down from the fish screen to the international wave. At the get out he submerged on the last drop, really slowly and with such elegance, his paddle never left his hand

Photographer: Sarah Nash

Description: Tom Parker in Verzasca

Photographer: Robert Piwko

Decription: none

Photographer: Danuta Wdziekousk

Description: none

Day Ticket/Season Tickets

(Season tickets available on-line from March 1st 2008!!)

All paddlers must purchase a day ticket or sign in using their season ticket prior to accessing any part of the river.

Day tickets
£14 per day for non-members
£7 for BCU/WCA/SCA/ICU/CANI members

Summer Season ticket (1st April – 30th September)
WCA/BCU/SCA/ICU/CANI members £40.00
Non-members £80.00
Under 18yrs WCA/BCU/SCA/ICU/CANI members £25.00
Under 18yrs non-members £60.00

Full Season Ticket (valid for 1 year from date of purchase)
WCA/BCU/SCA/ICA/CANI members £75.00
Non-members £160.00
Under 18yrs WCA/BCU/SCA/ICU/CANI members £50.00
Under 18yrs non-members £115.00

Season tickets can be bought on the day or in advance over the counter, over the phone or on-line (from March 1st 2008) and can be used on any day when the centre is open for recreational canoeing and kayaking.

A Day/Season ticket now allows you to use the river from the top-site to Bala, around 5 miles of whitewater.

Why is there a charge?
The day/season ticket charges are a water/facility fee. You may be interested to learn that the income from water fees is used to cover the following:

• Construction and maintenance - riverside trails, access points i.e. Bala Mill fencing & portage trail
• Provision and maintenance of car parking facilities
• Provision of Café facilities
• Provision of management staff and first aid services
• Purchase of water -a significant amount of water releases are purchased to allow boating/rafting to take place - about £28’000 was spent by Canolfan Tryweryn to purchase/secure water releases in 2004. If this money was not spent the river would be dry for many days of the year.
• Shower and changing facilities
• River works and maintenance

And probably most importantly:

• All profits generated from the operations of Canolfan Tryweryn are used to fund the work of the Welsh Canoeing Association (a non-profit making organisation), to develop Canoesport throughout Wales (subsidised coaching courses for clubs, negotiating and maintaining access on other rivers, supporting national squads in freestyle, slalom, river racing, polo etc)

Do I need to hold a qualification to paddle on the Tryweryn?

Individual kayakers and canoeists do not need to hold a formal qualification to be able to paddle on the Tryweryn. However, all river users must be capable of paddling on the river and must sign in at the centre to confirm that they understand the nature of the river and are sufficiently competent to paddle on the river. Remember, the lower river is more remote and ‘wilder’ in nature than the upper section of the river.

Should paddlers wish to access the river and they are not sufficiently skilled/experienced to canoe/kayak on the river they must be accompanied and supervised by a suitably qualified coach (BCU Level 4 or above in the relevant discipline). The coach will sign in the individual/group they are supervising and thus confirm in writing their responsibility for the individual/group. The Level 4 requirement applies to both the upper section (graded as 3/4), and to the lower river (graded 2/3 with one grade 4 rapid).

Canolfan Tryweryn is able to arrange coaches to work with individuals/groups who would wish to paddle the river but do not feel they are sufficiently competent to do so with out supervision. Please contact our coaching department on 01678 521083 ext 4 or e-mail info@rivercoaching.co.uk

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