West Wales Paddling Trip Oct 2004 With the quality of the British weather of late, and following the highly successful white water safety course it was time for a paddling weekend abroad (Wales) to hone our skills. With keen interest from a dozen intrepid paddlers it appeared the weekend would Read more
‘Bristol Canoe Club’ and ‘river safety’ are not two phrases that you’d normally expect to appear together – at least not without the words ‘dangerous lack of’ being spoken by Michael Burke on 999 Rescue. However, on the weekend of the 2nd October, a hardy group of 20 BCC paddlers Read more
Myself & “friend” ran the River Ure Hack Falls to Slenningford Water Mill Section on the 10th August in the biggest water I’ve paddled this river in 20 years. The non stop torrential down pour, environment agency flood warnings & a balmy summer evening made for a very amusing/hairy run. Read more
There are some pictures here OK so it was a tough choice two weeks in the French alps with the club or go to Turkey with a bunch of complete strangers. OK so not really that tough as I’ve done France 6 times including last year. Before we committed ourselves Read more
If you are a paddler and into your white water and associated trips then at some point you undoubtedly end up in the French Alps. It just kinda happens that way! This was my third time there and I had a couple of virgins with me (at this destination). Sam Read more
[ Well, it seems that no-one else has volunteered to write-up our trip to France, so it looks like I’ll have to… Ed. Also, some photos from this trip are here.] Dom had arranged a trip to the Briancon area, and chosen to stay at the same campsite we have Read more
Editorial A smaller issue this time, even though I have to apologise for the delay in producing this magazine. I will try harder next time… The deadline for the next issue will be around 1st November 2004. Thanks – Conor O’Neill Slalom News Bernie Cole, after 26 years in division Read more
BCC Scotland Trip27th March – 3rd April 2004 Some photos from this trip are here. The line up for this year’s jaunt was as follows: Alamo ‘Tortoise’ Spaargaren, Nick ‘Jungle Boy’ Clendon, Richard ‘Gollom’ Pinchin, Mat ‘Lord Snowdon’ Jones and Jim ‘the swim’ Ratcliffe. With a ratio of experienced paddlers Read more
Bristol Canoe Club Magazine Spring 2004 Another big issue, mostly describing the wonderful trips we’ve done in the last few months. Thanks for this set of articles – it really gives a flavour of what the club is doing. The deadline for the next issue will be around 1st April Read more
Tony Barrass News of good weather reached us early on Monday : The Environment Agency – has issued 64 flood watches and 25 flood warnings across Wales. We checked the Environment Agencies advice to see what we should do: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY ADVICE Encouraged by this good advice we planned a Read more