Pesda Touring Mini-Guide
UPPER LYON
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WHEREVER THERE’S WATER
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INTRODUCTION The peaceful upper glen is far more
open than the gorge lower down.
WATER LEVEL Obvious at the start – the shingle rapids
need to be floatable.
ACCESS From the road up the glen, the best start is where
the Allt Conait joins, near to where the road leaves up to Loch Daimh (529 445). Egress is where the road is alongside
the river, before the obvious rocky gorge (700 472).
CAMPSITES & ACCOMMODATION The nearest are at
Aberfeldy or Killin.
DESCRIPTION From Loch Lyon, going downstream, the
first 11km brings you to the junction with the Allt Conait
and a carry around two subsidiary dams, the small Stronuich
reservoir, and slab rapids below it. Where the burn joins, water increases, and there follows some 18km or so of delightful
river to where the whitewater stretch commences. Access can be difficult due to high wire fences, and egress should always be planned with care at a roadside stretch. Contributor: Eddie Palmer
Excerpt adapted from Scottish Canoe Touring, an SCA Canoe & Kayak Guide ISBN 0954706137, published by Pesda Press, Caernarfon. For details of this and other books, as well as downloads of further mini-guides
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#12 UPPER LYON
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OS map data reproduced with the kind permission of the Ordnance Survey
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GRADE
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Design & text adapted from the SCA guide to Scottish Canoe Touring, published by Pesda Press, Caernarfon.