Given the amount of chase boating in France [ 2008 ], I thought this deserved a re-write; (courtesy of JK) Class I, Easy. Fast moving water with riffles and small waves. Boat chasing is easy and fun. Boat immediately rescued and emptied on bank. People chat about how refreshing the Read more…
New International System for Rating Rapids (Found somewhere on the web) Someone asked an anonymous boater about his class IV comfort level and he answered something along the lines of “I’m comfortable that I can usually find an eddy to swim to.” Thus, the interviewer was inspired to offer this: Read more…
A write-up of the BCC Italy trip, 2007; PDF here. I’m not sure who was the author (JK?).
France 2006 Nicknames Some people think kayaking trips abroad are all about the paddling – which rivers were done? What grade were they? What were the features? Now that’s all very well, but far more important is the gossip… Jon Kerswell Nickname Reason Mat “Marmoset” Jones ‘One of the club’s Read more…
Taf Fechan It’s the end of May and I’m up early to go boating… well sort of, the plan is to take our boats for a walk down the Melte as Mark hasn’t done it before. What makes this plan even more stupid is I’m driving to the cage from Read more…
Kim’s Mighty Descent The weekend started by “Action Jackson” (Kim) picking up my Dad, my friend Kieran and I at 8:30 am. Then Kim and Dad started packing the car, and then Mum comes along and takes the cool bag out of the slow drivers car and guess what? It Read more…
So there I am, in the middle of the Upper Dart below Euthanasia balancing between John and Martin’s kayaks and praying that I don’t get my lovely dry clothes wet… A Sunday in February and a run on the Upper Dart beckons. We opt for an early start so we Read more…
We had a good trip to N Wales – rained hard on Friday – did U Wye on way up (I had a rest due to bad back). Sat did Conway – some got off before grade V section (including me as I didn’t want to have to carry my Read more…
The Mighty Lyn With no rain forecast for the weekend, it looked like it was going to be a quiet couple of days for paddling, so we decided to head out to the Lyn on Saturday and catch the last of the runoff from the moors, for a possible low Read more…