• Rafting Scotland

    Rafting in Scotland has to be some of the best in the UK, we can offer great days out for families, stag and hen groups, charity fund raising and corporate team building events. The rivers we use will depend on the time of year so we can offer a great experience all year. Read More

  • 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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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Rivers
The River Tummel PDF Print E-mail
Rafting on the Tummel

The River Tummel This 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.

The river has some fun technical rapids such as the Zig and Zag, The Graveyard and Sharks Tooth. The final drop is 18 foot so be sure to be holding on!

£40.00pp
 
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.
 
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 Tay PDF Print E-mail
Rafting on the Tay

The River 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. 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
 


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