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The Gelt - New Years Day 2003

It had been raining all day so Steve, Paul and Tom went to do the Gelt (down Geltsdale and through Gelt Woods)

Getting on near the waterworks houses

Steve on the first small drop ('the Gelt Pool')

Tom on the first small drop

Paul in his Pop

The constriction and drop below Jockey Shield (we decided it was too tight today)

Lots of trees choking the river through the woods below Jockey Shield

A drop by the next bridge down

Paul in Gelt Woods

The other dodgy rapid (with a boulder in the middle and a sump on the right)