December has proved to be a busy month so far. The month started with the Gene17 Adventure Paddler Weekend, ticking off two descents of the Upper Dart on the Saturday and then a descent of the East Lyn from Watersmeet on the Sunday. In the couple of days preceding the…
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Gene17 APWE 2008
Last weekend (6/7th December) saw the 2008 Gene17 APWE based at the River Dart Country Park. Saturday saw a couple of runs down the Upper Dart, including a little race down the Mad Mile on the second run with a couple of great pins at Surprise Surprise. Saturday evening was…
A (very) cold weekend in Wales
The weekend started when I left my flat in Harrow, NW London at 1845 to start the drive to our accommodation for the weekend in Capel Curig, North Wales. Picking Amy up from the station in Harrow, we headed to Henley to collect her kit and meet Emma. I made…
Scotland photos
I have just realised that I have not posted up any photos from my recent trip to Scotland. They are available on Facebook at Scotland part one and Scotland part two Surman showing off and creeking without paddles (just before the first swim of the week) Ian falling in before…
South Wales – weirs and waterfalls
Following on from spending the week before kayaking in Scotland, I was already bored with England and had to escape again. The destination for this weekend was to be South Wales, and my accomplaces were Martyn, Emma and Dave Birkett and Tim – who had only started one year previously….
Scotland day 6 – Middle Etive and Allt Mheuran
Friday started off with a plan to head across to the Etive and its tributaries. Unlike previous days, standing around outside the chalets waiting for everyone to get ready did not see a new plan formulated and we headed off to the Etive. Arriving at Triple Step – the get-on…
Scotland day 5 – Lower Findhorn
Returning from the pub around midnight last night, I retrieved my drysuit which was drying / airing outside our chalet and took it indoors. I was glad I did because it had frozen again – it could almost stand up on its own! Waking up this morning we were greated…
Scotland day 4 – Lower Tummel
Wednesday started slightly slower than the previous days – partly due to not leaving the pub until almost 0100 and partly due to no decision having been made as to which river to paddle today. Eventually we chose to head to Etive, but that was quickly changed to the Braan…
Scotland day 3 – Middle Orchy and Arkaig
Waking up we were somewhat surprised to see the ground around our chalets covered with snow. Now, seeing the ground all white was not helping with the motivation for getting all cold and wet on river! Negating this, we headed across to the Orchy. Upon arrival the motivation was no…
Scotland day 2 – Spean Gorge and Arkaig
Another early start was required today in order to achieve our target of the Coe and the Orchy, which meant leaving at 0830. Arriving at the Coe we were disappointed to discover that the level had dropped off too much meaning that it was too low to paddle. We decided…