Yet another whitewater course this year. This time at Wildalpen on the Salza, with Heinz Götze. And Andreas was joining for some fun paddling days as well, just as Irmi who would join us on the second day.

To the Salza there is not much more to say except: WAW! It's a nice landscape, great river and having the possibility to head for really hard lines, just as well as just flow through. Of course going for the hard lines was what we did. I took the prelude, thinking that if I could handle the Loisach, I should be able to handle the Salza as well in it.  Well, I actually could, but not for 3 long paddling days in a row. After all it is still hard work for me to keep the prelude under controll. But the good thing was, that the prelude showed me the smallest mistake. It's a severe teacher, but if you can handle the steep learning curve, it's also a good teacher.

The Salza is not a completely harmless rivers, it has some rapids or sections that require a bit more of attention, but most of it is just pure fun. You can measure that by the amount of 2 person rafts that come down there for trips. And even then in June, we saw quite a lot of them.

This course is worth it's money. It's all about getting the most out of a class II section, hitting lines you probably wouldn't even need on a class III river, but without nasty consequences. The worst thing that could happen is a somewhat longer swim (and I went for one in the "biggest"' rapid we were on.

 But a video says a lot more then 1000 words, so maybe  you just want to have a look: