• Last Minute Deals

    For the best last minute web deals each week follow the link below to the deals page. This Saturday we are now offering rafting trips on the mighty River Tummel or cliff jumping at 10am at a bargain £30!!! Book soon & mention the web deal offer when you book to get the lowest prices.

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  • Team Building Scotland

    Looking for a team building weekend in Scotland, well here at Freespirits we like to think of ourselves as experts in the field.  We have a variety of team building and bonding activities to get a staff member in the right frame of mind.

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  • Charity Fundraising

    We've helped with many charity events through our white water rafting activities and abseiling.  If you are looking for an effective way to raise money for a charity please give us a call or email and we'll get in touch with ideas and suggestions.

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Thursday, September 02, 2010
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The River Tay PDF Print E-mail
Rafting on the Tay

We run the Tay every day except Saturdays during the Tummel season (June-mid September).  The river Tay is grades 1-3, it can be relatively mild to big and burly depending on the water levels on the day.  The first half of the trip is the calmer half so we play lots of games to get you all nice and wet before we hit the rapids.

After the first rapid 'church pool' they get progressively bigger as the trip goes on. Shortly after the first rapid we sometimes have the opportunity to try and get a surf in a recirculating bit of water called a 'hole' for a nice gentle thrashing.

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4th Rapid

We finish the trip off at the main section of rapids in Grandtully, which is also home to one of the most popular the UK white water slalom spots.  There we have 3 consecutive rapids and then the big surf spot '4th.'

The Tay begins its course in the village of Kenmore where it flows out of Loch Tay. In fact there are several tributaries which run into the loch, but they have different names (Rivers Fillan, Dochart and Lochay). The river is already quite large by our standards.

Rafting on the Tay

It has a typical flow in excess of 100 cubic meters per second in Kenmore. By the time it reaches Perth the River Tay has the higest flow of any river in the UK. The stretch we run is the Aberfeldy-Grandtully run and is six miles long, culminating in a descent of the national white water slalom section at Grandtully.

£35.00pp

What our Customers Say

Thank you all for for a great day on the Tay. The staff were all great fun, and we all thoroughly enjoyed our day. Thanks to Dee, Jack and Calum for their great instruction. The pictures are all excellent (if a little unflattering!) and captured the spirit of the trip. We will definately be back next year to try the Tummel. So look out
Thanks again.
Pamela Neil
 
The River Tummel PDF Print E-mail
linn of tummel Linn of Tummel

The River Tummel
The main bulk of the river has rapids ranging from grades 2-3.  Many are fun and technical such as 'zig and zag', 'the grave yard' and 'sharks tooth'. The crews involvement is paramount on this river so lots of instruction is given in paddling at the beginning of the trip.

The Tummel is action packed from start to finish.

The final rapid, the Linn of Tummel is a grade 4, 2 tier waterfall drop which ranges between 18 and 25 foot depending on the water levels of the loch, be sure to be holding on!

zig and zag Zig and Zag

The River Tummel starts its life 60 miles to the west of Pitlochry on the windswept Rannoch Moor close to Glencoe. It begins as the River Ba and runs east passing through numerous lochs including Loch Ba, Loch Laidon, Loch Eigheach, Loch Rannoch, Dunalastair Water, Loch Tummel and finally Loch Faskally, until it reaches the main stem of the River Tay at Ballinluig.

Price: £40.00pp
Minimum age: 16yrs
Grades: 2-4
Availability: Weekends June - mid September
 
The River Braan PDF Print E-mail

This is an absolutely stunning river to go down with plenty of rapids all the way and loads going on. There are overhanging trees on either side for most of the trip making it luscious green and particularly picturesque. We sail down between fields of livestock and not much else deap in the heart of the Scottish countryside.

This river ranges from grades 2-4 with trips lasting anywhere from 1.5 to 3 hours depending on the water levels. Some people like to run the river twice and make a day of it as it's a fantastic fun as you can see from the gallery.
 
The River Garry PDF Print E-mail
The River Garry is spectacular with its tumbling falls to gentle glides. From the put-in, bouncy water with a good gradient leads to a nice playhole/ wave with a big eddy on river right. Below here, the river bends left and goes through a steep rapid...head river right as below the rapid are two consecutive loop/ cartwheel spots. The next rapid is a ledge drop with a good playhole on river right. This works well for blasting/ cartwheeling/ power flips etc. The final rapid down to the bridge at the Forest car-park has some nice waves for surfing and wavewheeling....go on, you have to at least try!

This river is a very short section and is the best guaranteed river through the summer months. Situated in Inverness-shire it is a one mile rush of continual rapids. For each trip we run the river twice, once to settle you down and get you used to paddling and the second to "surf" some of the rapids.
 
The River Orchy PDF Print E-mail
The River Orchy Very much a weather dependant river. The river Orchy comes up and down very quickly. When it is up it is the most exciting rafting trip commercially run in Britain. This is a full day trip and definitely not for the faint hearted. In the event of the river not running an alternative will be used. The place known as Bridge of Orchy is - well almost literally a bridge, except for a few small houses scattered around it and a Scottish highland hotel. Mention of the hotel is quite apt as the main reason for the hamlet was a stopping place for travellers. Bridge of Orchy is also popular for two other reasons. One is the use of the River Orchy here by canoeists and white water rafters, the other significant attraction is the climb of the dominant summits of Beinn Dorain and Beinn an Dothaidh, which guard this small hamlet.
 
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