One car solo

[ned]

Sometimes it becomes confirmed that i am sad lonely person with no mates and I need to go boating on my own. Actually, I quite like it, but dont tell the BCU!

So what are your little favourites for this naughty little pleasure?

Torver beck is a favourite of mine

[rockrat]

Braan up in Scotland was a favourite of mine when I was working up there. Could finish work at 5, bash down from Hermitage Falls to the car park - medium volume grade 2/3 at best - and be back on centre for tea and evening work at 6.

Occasionally I'd bump into other boaters at the bottom car park after getting off of my solo run and wangle my way on their trip to do the section above the Hermitage and just miss the 6pm meal on centre.

[Poke]

Torver was a favourite when I lived in the south lakes.. Once managed to run the entire (lower) section, and do the shuttle, in a door-to-door time of 1 hour and 15mins.. that's leaving the house to getting back. Great stuff!

Have managed to solo the upper Calder since moving to the west lakes, though I was fortunately bailed out of having to cycle the shuttle by the girlfriends parents (I was running late to sign the contract for my new rented house)..

[callwild]

Done some long ones with bike
The whole Calder, Moor to Sellafield
The Troutbeck North, Glenderamackin, Greta combination.

Maddest, although not a reccomended run, is the Upper Glenderamackin. Park at Scales Inn below Blecathra and carry boat up & over Mousethwaite combe to put in. The Glenderamackin then goes in abig loop through Mungrisedale and back to within a few hundred yards of Scales Inn. Upper Beck is alright but from Mungrisedale there are lots of fences and not much rapid stuff.

Upper Caldew is a favourite for I car.

Langstrath has to be one of the best quick hits with no shuttle.

[Atti]

Kent is an obvious one, but done the sprint many times with one car!
Stash the boats at sprint bridge, and walk up. Easy, dosen't take long. Even better on a bike!

[kris]

I really got into running the Leven last summer after work, it always seemed to follow the same pattern, just go for a play on brick chute, get a bit bored play a bit further down stream, might as well run the bridge (which was preceded by faffing and giving myself a stern talking to), if I was down that far I might as well run to the end, stash the boat and hitch up. I don't think I ever planned to run the river a single time I did. All good and it does help focus the mind but the bridge still gives me the heebie jeebies even when I run it with others?

[daveb]

Great post, I've just been thinking about some possible new solo runs myself. Not sussed anything but the obvious Leven & kent yet but its good to know what others have been up to .. Might give the Sprint a go myself:D

[steve ed]

Stock ghylls is an easy logicistical one and skelwiths another park and huck

[will hay]

got to be something like newlands beck or trout beck

[Jonny Briggs]

The other weekend when things were really big (same weekend as that fell race that was on the news) Shaun and I did Troutbeck, parked the van at the top and boated down. It was at such a good level we decided we would do it again, we started walking back up and caught some young farm lads with quads and trailers smoking some weed, they gave us a lift back up to the van, it was more scary than any river I have paddled. The rive had then risen 2 foot and was really pumping, it was an awsome run down untill the last stoppers grabbed me and cracked my helmet. It was one of the best days boating I have ever had.