The Table Mountain Decent, a 32 kilometer paddle that Start at Cumberland Nature Reserve and finishes at Nagle Dam, offers exciting paddling in clean water on Pietermartizburg’s doorstep. This section of river is graded A due to its technical sections, but the river is by no means full of big boat eating rapids. Instead the paddlers are challenged by having to make quick decisions and navigate between rocks, sometime for hundreds of meters at a time. Mistakes are rarely badly punished, but you may have to climb out your boat and realign if you make the wrong choice. The rapids must be approached with more caution and less speed, charging down rapids may spell your downfall, rather let the water guide you through to the bottom of the rapids only paddling against the flow when necessary!

Early on in the paddle the rapid gradient is more gentle and rapids quite long, but as one nears Nagle Dam this changes into slightly steeper rapids separated by large pools.

Come and discover a new section of river on your doorstep!

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