10 Very hung over paddles gathered their kit and headed to the Upper Guile. Due to the recent flooding parts of the mountain road had been washed away. A diversion had been set up but was controlled by traffic lights that changed every hour because; the road was only wide enough for single lane traffic. With a late start and time not on our side, to catch the traffic lights changing, we had to forego breakfast. Once on the river we headed down through a short gorge, just keeping up right seamed a mission as certain people were still drunk. The upper Guile was in medium to high water flow making the short 7Km paddle very quick. The get out was not means difficult but had a boat gone passed this point it was certain to have been broken into pieces. Just after the get out was the Guile Gorge 2 Kms of river in a gorge just the width of a boat (not a place to be exploring in any water flow).
Yet again we forgot it was Sunday and supermarkets don’t open. 10 very tired and hung over paddlers headed to Guillestre where we found a Pizza/ Pasta restaurant for lunch, very nice but a bit slow on service. It was going to be another make shift dinner out of left overs as we were out of fresh meat and veg.
The afternoon was spent sleeping in the shade of some nearby trees eating as much as possible simply to avoid having to take any food home. The evening’s entertainment was a trip back up on the Fournel, where we could make as much noise as we required and to avoid the risk of being thrown off the campsite.
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