Organizer:
Salome Hussein
Date/Time:
Date(s) - Thursday 11 December, 2025 - Monday 15 December, 2025
All Day
canoeing
kayaking
G’day,
Stuart and I are planning to revisit an old classic — the 95km Tumut to Gundagai Canoe Hike.
It’s a fun jaunt, and I remember heaps of rope swings and blackberries to grab at from the water. We can use a variety of craft, but one benefit of canoes is you share effort, and you can take a lot of kit e.g. fishing poles, eskies, etc.
Level:
“The Tumut River with normal summer flows is not a beginners’ river. The moving water is classified as Grade 1 rapid. The water is deep and cold. Canoeists should wear a helmet, avoid trees and fixed objects that can trap your canoe and be aware of hypothermia if you capsize. Canoeing skills and some experience is needed to handle this moving water. Some sections are quite long and depending on flow may take greater than five hours of paddling. A reasonable level of fitness is required.”
To clarify that description, this is fast water, but not rapids in the sense of particularly intimidating hydraulic features. HOWEVER, there are a lot of willows, logs, and bends. If you cannot handle yourself in those bends, you effectively become part of the debris gathered into those bends… if you get my drift (heh).
Skills:
- Have paddled >10km in a day before.
- Swim, aggressive front crawl 50m, and tread water 4min
- Throwbagging
- Ferrygliding
- Enter and exit eddies correctly
- Lifting and carrying 15kg for 200+m
- Wild camping
- Replying to emails on time
We would use Day 1 to review Paddle Skills 1 with additional swiftwater info/practice. Email or DM us on Discord if you’re on the fence and unsure if you meet the criteria.
Preference may be given to those who can help on car shuffles.
We’ll close registration a couple weeks out.
Trust us, it’ll be fun.
salome and stu